Prehistoric Tech: 'Jurassic Beaver' Stuns Scientists
Raquel Welch
Promotional Poster from the 1966 film, "One Million Years B.C."
Image source: Wikipedia
Promotional Poster from the 1966 film, "One Million Years B.C."
Image source: Wikipedia
Somehow, I don't these scientists were talking about Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.
Sorry -- with a headline like this what did you expect? I just couldn't resist.
Okay, now that I've got that out of my system, Jeff Hecht writes on New Scientist:
The discovery of a new, remarkably preserved fossil of a beaver-like mammal that lived 164 million years ago is shaking palaeontologists’ understanding of early mammals.More here.
Looking as if it was put together from pieces of platypus, river otter, and beaver, the creature was nearly half a metre long and weighed about half a kilogram. This makes it the largest of its kind ever found in the Jurassic Period, from 200 million to 145 million years ago.
posted by Fergie @ 2/23/2006 04:34:00 PM
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