[VadeRetro]

As somebody used to say, "Everybody be nice!"

[dirtboy]

The discovery of a furry, beaver-like animal that lived at the time of dinosaurs

Too bad the headline wasn't "Beaver millions of years older than previously believed".

[VadeRetro]

"Has-been" ping!

[r9etb]

"Used to?" PH is still around, isn't he?

[Pondman88]

Wet furry Beavers.....hmmmmm.

[null and void]

As somebody used to say, "Everybody be nice!"

That will be challenging on this thread...

[Red Badger]

Here's a fossilized mammal.........

[Poser]

I thought the earth was only 4000 years old? Go figure.

[GSlob]

Aquatic mammals normally have very durable furs: hats and coats could easily last 20+ years, but this "Castorcauda lustrasimilis, a docodont mammaliaform" beat all the records. Why, it was "preserved with fur" for how long? Since Jurassic?

[editor-surveyor]

Just a matter of time until all will have to recognize that the house of cards is burning as it falls.

[Redcloak]

Beaverzilla?

[Tokra]

Extinct Giant Beaver:

[areafiftyone]

Fossil Overturns Ideas of Jurassic Mammals,

Has someone told Helen Thomas yet?

[Sopater]

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...

[oldleft]

[Mcirrus]

Oh man, this would be too easy.

[colorado tanker]

Would've been interesting to see one of those go after Jimmuh Carter's fishing boat!

[Mike Darancette]

No more timorous lil' beasties?

[Junior]

World's oldest beaver found?

[manwiththehands]

"Be nice". When evos start believing in science again.

[RightWingAtheist]

I'm a lifelong paleontology buff, and am also, as Robert Bakker would call me, something of a "mammal chauvinist". I always resented the way mammals were described as "insignificant" just for being small, and secretly hoped that someday, someone would find evidence that large mammals existed in the Mesozoic. Now, I feel vindicated :-)