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Fossil Overturns Ideas of Jurassic Mammals
AP ^
| February 23, 2006 2:43 PM EST
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 02/23/2006 12:30:53 PM PST by VadeRetro
![](http://eimg.net/harvest_xml/NEWS/img/20060223/43fd4150_3ca7_1552720060223-1710783121.jpg)
This image provided by the journal Science shows a Castorcauda lustrasimilis, a docodont mammaliaform from the Middle Jurrassic .Characterized by an evolutionary convergence of its "beaver-like" tail, and some dental feautres for feeding small fish and invertebrates convergent to that of an otter. MARK A. KLINGER
WASHINGTON - The discovery of a furry, beaver-like animal that lived at the time of dinosaurs has overturned more than a century of scientific thinking about Jurassic mammals.
The find shows that the ecological role of mammals in the time of dinosaurs was far greater than previously thought, said Zhe-Xi Luo, curator of vertebrate paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
The animal is the earliest swimming mammal to have been found and was the most primitive mammal to be preserved with fur, which is important to helping keep a constant body temperature, Luo said in a telephone interview.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crevolist; evolution
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To: PatrickHenry
Must be tough on the knees.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:43:15 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
![](http://critters.pixel-shack.com/WebImages/crittersgallery/Docodont.jpg)
Cool critter!
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:43:49 PM PST
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: VadeRetro
Extinct Giant Beaver:
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:44:15 PM PST
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: Dimensio
I think he's implying that the process of discovering new evidence means that all existing theories are invalid.
I assume he also believes that the discovery of a new element invalidates the existing periodic table.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:44:28 PM PST
by
blowfish
To: GSlob
Aquatic mammals normally have very durable fursSo do some non-aquatic mammals. I had a mink cape that was 35 years old when I gave it a friend who actually had occasion to wear a mink cape :-).
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:44:35 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)
To: null and void
" I just had it stuffed..." I'll be nice and not ask what you stuffed it with :o)
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:45:06 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: GreenFreeper
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:45:09 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)
To: VadeRetro
Fossil Overturns Ideas of Jurassic Mammals,Has someone told Helen Thomas yet?
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:45:47 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: Dimensio
Please remember to use proper terminology in this thread. Using moderator-compliant FReepSpeaktm, we now say "frequently-repeated error," sometimes called (after the poster has received numerous corrections) a "compulsively repeated error."
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:46:04 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: VadeRetro
Crea: How do you know that that animal was millions of years old?
Evo: Because, it was found in rock that is millions of years old.
Crea: Oh, and how do you know that the rock is millions of years old?
Evo: Becuase, dummy, it has a fossil in it that is millions of years old... Aren't you paying attention?
Crea: Oh, yeah...
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:47:34 PM PST
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: VadeRetro
Still amazing. The dream of furriers' trade.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:47:38 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: editor-surveyor; PatrickHenry
Amen!
A house of cards, built on sand. Great will be it fall!
(Mt 7:24-27)
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:48:24 PM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
To: GreenFreeper
No mention of how this new find, beaver-tail otter-similar, falls out on the monotreme-marsupial-placental typology (is it too early?) or what its ear/jaw bones are like.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:48:36 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: editor-surveyor
"Just a matter of time until all will have to recognize that the house of cards is burning as it falls."
Too late. YEC fell a long time ago. :)
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:51:23 PM PST
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
To: Sopater
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:51:43 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
36
posted on
02/23/2006 12:51:54 PM PST
by
oldleft
To: VadeRetro
"frequently repeated error."
:)
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:52:47 PM PST
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
To: Tax-chick
No its a artist rendition of a Docodont
this is a Nutria:
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:53:08 PM PST
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: editor-surveyor
Miss Spencer! This is
Lieutenant Drebin from Police Squad.
Hello...Mr Drebin.
Hello.
Oh!
Her hair was the colour
of gold in old paintings.
She had a full set of curves
and the kind of legs
you'd like to suck on for a day.
She gave me a look
l could feel in my hip pocket.
Yep, this was starting
to get interesting.
- Nice beaver.
- Thank you.
- l just had it stuffed.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:55:09 PM PST
by
null and void
(Imagine what they would be doing if it wasn't a religion of peace!!!)
To: VadeRetro; PatrickHenry; longshadow
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:55:31 PM PST
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
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