China's 'Jurassic Park' yields feathered dinosaurs, earliest swimming mammal & strange salamanders

The London Daily Mail ^ | March 6, 2014 | Sarah Griffiths

[2ndDivisionVet]

A 'Jurassic Park' in China was once home to dinosaurs that lived among early mammals, amphibians and other strange creatures 160 million years ago.

The extraordinary fossil bed contains the bones of pterosaurs - early mammals – including the first known swimming mammal with a beaver-like tail, the earliest gliding mammal and feathered dinosaurs.

Their remarkably preserved remains were discovered in rocks beneath the Jehol Biota in north eastern China - a famous collection of 130 million-year-old fossils from the Cretaceous Period.

The latest discovery sheds light on life in the Middle-Upper Jurassic 30million years earlier when birds are believed to have evolved from feathered dinosaurs.

The newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossils have been named the Daohugou fossils or Daohugou Biota after a village near one of the six sites dug up and have been catalogued and described in detail....

[sauropod]

Pterosaurs are not mammals.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

[bert]

Free Renge Salamander

[skinkinthegrass]

"8-P"just moving; just a little faster on evolutionary chain. d8-)
gobbled up by time/the occasional boas, hope your/their warm.

[Salamander]

Bah...you and your little prehensile tail and thumbs.

;D

[skinkinthegrass]

"Free Range Salamander"all over this (cosmology speaking) little ball of dust.
except. the Arctic/Antarctic..*cue*
u-tube,"MP's, the meaning of life; the cosmo song"*

[skinkinthegrass]

??? *zsa zas gabor's*well..Darling, you got the tail-end, w/no messily eyelids/foot pads.

[ApplegateRanch]

Big bait = big fish: that waterdog should be good for a record largemouth bass.