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• Doubts over South American marsupial study
  A new study that suggests all living marsupials originated in South America and share a common ancestor has been disputed by an Australian palaeontologist as "simplistic".
  
  
• Dinosaurs dug for mammalian prey
  Fossilised mammal burrows that appear to have been clawed out by a predator suggests dinosaurs dug into mammal dens to get furry morsels.
  
  
• Southern species 'older than northern'
  Species in the Northern Hemisphere are younger than those in the Southern Hemisphere, say Australian researchers.