[News] beaver 125 million walked the planet

[Hellfighter]

man they been around a long time. gee they even go back before man walk the earth who would have kown that

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A creature that looked like a beaver, right down to its flat paddle-like tail and webbed feet, lived 164 million years ago alongside dinosaurs, U.S. and Chinese researchers reported on Thursday.
It might not have gnawed trees as modern beavers do -- its teeth suggest it ate fish -- but the little animal had fur and even the inner ear structure of a mammal, they report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Thomas Martin of the Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg in Frankfurt, Germany, said the finding showed mammals had conquered the water 100 million years earlier than anyone thought.

"This exciting fossil is a further jigsaw-puzzle piece in a series of recent discoveries, demonstrating that the diversity and early evolutionary history of mammals were much more complex than perceived less than a decade ago," Martin wrote in a commentary.

The fossil was found in the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation in China, a deposit rich in the fossils of dinosaurs, early insects and other creatures. It dates to 164 million years ago.

Qiang Ji and colleagues at Nanjing University in China and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said the animal, which they named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, would have weighed just 500 grams (18 ounces).

"It is the most primitive taxon in the mammalian lineage known to have fur and has a broad, flattened, partly scaly tail analogous to that of modern beavers," they wrote.

They found remnants of fur, scales on the tail and, in between the back toes, webbing.

Source: http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jh...ddlyEnoughNews

[Lucky]

coooool
18 ounces?isnt that kinda light?

[Alucard-NGS-]

Crazy the beaver must be like gods amung the mammales for being around that long.

[Hellfighter]

will its really counts what did they find a adult or a baby? can't say. sound more like a baby 500mg or 18oz

by: Lucky
coooool
18 ounces?isnt that kinda light?

but still thats wild to think they had (breed) family tree over 125 million years back into time.