Furry scrambler earliest placental mammal

PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- Remarkably well preserved for a 125-million-year-old, a furry, mouse-sized fossil unearthed in China is giving scientists an eyeful of the earliest history of placental mammals, of which man is one. The skeleton, complete with a dense pelt, is more than 40 million years older than the previous earliest known representative of this lineage, scientists said in Nature.