Prehistoric rodent fossil. Fossilised skeleton of a Masillamys prehistoric rodent found in Germany. These early rodents lived during the Eocene epoch

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Prehistoric rodent fossil. Fossilised skeleton of a Masillamys prehistoric rodent found in Germany. These early rodents lived during the Eocene epoch (around 56 to 34 million years ago). Photographed at the In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, in 2011.

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