Race to find world's oldest mammal
fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s
PhysOrgCom, October 10, 2023
[phys.org]

The open access paper is:

Benton, M.J., Gill, P.G. and Whiteside, D.I., 2023.
Finding the world’s oldest mammals: sieving,
dialectical materialism, and squabbles. Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlad089.
[academic.oup.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)