Posted on 03/13/2002 11:49:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The fossil, which measures less than a quarter-inch long, is believed to be from the middle or late Jurassic Period, perhaps 170 million years old. Researchers said it suggests that mammals developed independently in the Southern Hemisphere.
The fossil, named Asfaltomylos patagonicus, was discovered in a mudstone formation in the province of Chubut, 950 miles south of Buenos Aires. The now-arid region also has yielded some remarkable dinosaur fossils from the same era in a vast ancient boneyard covering hundreds of square miles.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Proof that Ancient Earth was paved.
This will come as a shock to some of the participants on these threads -- well, one in particular -- who keep proclaiming that mammary glands are the only TRUE mark of a mammal, early or modern.
New motto: bicuspids, not boobies!
Okay dude, you owe me a new keyboard. (Note to self: Never, never drink coffee and read FreeRepublic and the same time).
Um, not those of us with a normal, healthy obsession, if you know what I mean.
I can use that in the discussons I have all the time with platypus lawyers who say the monotremes came from nowhere and had no relatives.
Researchers said it suggests that mammals developed independently in the Southern Hemisphere.
But I really didn't need to read that. I hope it's just the science writer blurring up a mess.
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