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Kombuisia antarctica was a four-legged animal about the size of a house cat that burrowed in the ground.
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Sidor said it's possible Kombuisia or a similar tetrapod could have created the burrows.
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"If [Kombuisia] had been present in South Africa at the same time as Antarctica, we would have found it," Sidor said.
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Based on reconstructions of latitude, geography and climate at the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, Kombuisia probably lived in a region of Pangaea subject to extreme swings in temperature, according to Sidor.
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Sidor said Kombuisia appears earlier in the fossil record in Antarctica than it does in South Africa, where similar species have been discovered but in much greater abundance thanks partly to a longer history of exploration and easier access.
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Jörg Fröbisch and Kenneth D. A.gielczyk of The Field Museum together with Christian A. Sidor from the University of Washington have identified a distant relative of mammals, Kombuisia antarctica, that apparently survived the mass extinction by living in A.tarctica.
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Kombuisia antarctica was not a direct ancestor of living mammals, but it was among the few lineages of animals that survived at a time when a majority of life forms perished.
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The refuge of Kombuisia in Antarctica probably wasn't the result of a seasonal migration but rather a longer-term change that saw the animal's habitat shift southward.
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A cat-sized distant relative of mammals, Kombuisia antarctica, seems to have survived the extinction by fleeing south to Antarctica.
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"However, Kombuisia antarctica, about the size of a small house cat, was considerably different from today's mammals -- it likely laid eggs, didn't nurse its young and didn't have fur, and it is uncertain whether it was warm blooded," said Angielczyk, Assistant Curator of Paleomammology at The Field Museum.
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