A group of paleontologists from the University of Portsmouth has discovered two new species of mammals that lived 145 million years ago in what is now Dorset county, southern England.
Artist’s impression of a lagoon at dusk with Durlstodon ensomi (left foreground), Durlstotherium newmani (right and center foreground) and the theropod Nuthetes holding a captured Durlstotherium newmani (center middle distance). Image credit: Mark Witton