The idea is that it came around 15 or so million years ago, wthout during the midmasene climate transition. This expansion of grass lands occurred, which then led to the diverse vacation of rodents. So this body elongation is hypothesised to have allowed those weasel like creatures to go underground to chase all those rodents in these tight crevices and what not.

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