Jurassic Beaver Found!Follow

While most of you thought this thread might be about Katie, it really has to do with the "Castorocauda Lutrasimilis" —-the creature, whose name, loosely translated, means beaver-tailed and looks like a river otter. It looks a lot like a beaver with its' hairy body, flat tail, limbs and webbed feet adapted for swimming, but it lived 164 million years ago. A well-preserved fossil mammal discovered in northeastern China has pushed the history of aquatic mammals back a hundred million years, a new study says, according to National Geographic magazine. It is the oldest swimming mammal ever found and the oldest known animal preserved with fur, the researchers say in their report, which will be published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. "The origin of fur predates the origin of modern mammals," said study co-author Zhe-Xi Luo, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "This discovery has pushed fur-bearing nearly 40 million years further into the past," Luo said.

While most of you were prolly hoping for something more along the lines of this, sadly, Katie never made it out of the pre-Jizzcrustedfacean Period. Her fabled tight pu55y has long been extinct.

Totem

I though fossils were planted by the jews.

If a jurassic beaver was found it prolly needs some "summers eve" to cover up that smell.

Or really tight jeans.

I told Sherman not to but the Beaver into the way back machine. This kinds of crap always happens when you're drunk.

Edited, Sun Feb 26 16:45:25 2006 by Iamadam