Adalatherium (SciiFii)

The Malagasy gopher (Adalatherium madagascarensis, name meaning "Madagascar crazy beast") is a species of gondwanatherian mammal, more closely related to marsupials and placental mammals than to monotremes, that originally lived on Madagascar during the Cretaceous and early Paleocene period, during the Maastrichtian and Danian, as an extinct species of Adalatherium and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced throughout the modern rainforests, wetlands, forests, and open woodlands across Madagascar to help boost biodiversity. The Malagasy gopher is very large for a Mesozoic mammal, growing to be about 73 centimeters (2.4 feet) long. It is built somewhat like a badger, but is entirely herbivorous, with convergently rodent-like ever-growing front teeth that helps it chew through tough plant matter. It is a marmot-like digging animal, excavating burrows with its large claws and powerful limbs, and it has a very unusual mixture of both “primitive” and highly specialized anatomical features. It has more back vertebrae than any other known mammal originally from the Mesozoic, upright forelimbs, sprawling hind legs with bowed-out tibias, strong back and leg musculature, and a therian-like pelvis with epipubic bones. It also had one other bizarre feature, a hole in the top of its nose. A large “internasal vacuity” between its nasal bones is a unique feature not known in any other mammal. This hole is also surrounded by many foramina, and it supports a soft-tissue sensory structure on top of its nose, forming a leathery horn-like “shield”. The Malagasy gopher is a solitary animal that prefers to live in most of its life alone except during the breeding seasons. The conservation status of the Malagasy gopher is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the Malagasy gopher's wide range and its tolerance to many of the human activities.