Meniscoessus: Beast of the Week https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2024/09/meniscoessus-beast-of-week.html

"#Meniscoessus was a roughly house cat-sized mammal that lived during the late #Cretaceous Period, between 70 and 66 million years ago, in what is now North America... was likely an omnivore when alive... belonged to #multituberculates... a completely #extinct group of #mammals"

Just Like Us, #Jurassic #Mammals Cared for Their Young https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/just-like-us-worlds-oldest-mammals-cared-for-their-young-180980650/ by Riley Black

Clues from bones reveal #multituberculates looked after their offspring for lengthy periods during the Age of #Dinosaurs.

Paper in @ASNAmNat - Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of #Placentals, Not #Marsupials https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/720410