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Officials say beaver teeth are 7 million years old
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| 09-19-2011
| Staff
Posted on 09/19/2011 2:00:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees on federal land represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America.
The pair of teeth was found on BLM land in northeast Oregon.
The Albany Democrat-Herald reports the teeth come from the Rattlesnake Formation and are 7 to 7.3 million years old.
The BLM says the earliest beavers were found in Germany 10 to 12 million years ago and the animals spread across Asia, eventually crossing the Bering Land Bridge to North America.
The previous earliest known records of living beavers in North America, from about 5 million years ago, were from Nebraska, California, and northern Oregon.
The fossils will be displayed at the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; US: Alaska; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: animals; beaver; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; napl
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A new fossil find represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/18/workers-find-7-million-year-old-beaver-teeth-in-oregon/#ixzz1YQyZUzQl
To: Red Badger
This thread can’t be good.
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:01:31 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Red Badger
When beavers ruled the earth...
To: Raycpa
This thread can’t be good.
Oh my, here we go.........
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:02:59 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
To: Raycpa
There’s just something about beavers that brings out the worst in FReepers..........
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
To: Raycpa
This thread can’t be good. Now you got me interested... lol
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
ToxicMich
To: Red Badger
Helen Thomas has dentata?
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:05:28 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
To: Red Badger
I thought they were talking about the Kennedys
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:06:04 PM PDT
by
Krankor
To: Raycpa; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
This thread can’t be good. That depends on what tasteless, tacky FReepers are pinged to it.
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:06:45 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
To: Red Badger
How did we as a species survive the period when beavers had teeth?
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:07:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 972 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: Red Badger
That some OLD beaver, let me tell ya.
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:07:42 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: OSHA
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:08:37 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 972 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: OSHA
I wasn’t pinged. Were you?
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:10:35 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: Red Badger
Beavers teeth are 7 million years old? Get out of here. He is only in his 60's today. Nice try though.
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:11:26 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Red Badger; OSHA; Slings and Arrows
This is the best I can do without getting banned.
To: Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:12:07 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: OSHA; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; martin_fierro; NYC GOP Chick; ...
> This thread can’t be good.
That depends on what tasteless, tacky FReepers are pinged to it.You rang?
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:15:09 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Red Badger
The pair of teeth
A toothless beaver is an indication of poor dental hygiene.... There's nothing worse than a beaver with bad breath.....
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:17:20 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Woooohoooo! I’m tasteless and tacky!
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:20:12 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: SunkenCiv
7 million years ago there was a civilization of Beavers in what was going to become the USA.
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posted on
09/19/2011 2:23:34 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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