Tree-climbing with dinosaurs

Nature-Science Update ^ | April 25, 2002 | John Whitfield

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A mouse-sized fossil from 125 million years ago is the earliest known member of the mammal group that includes humans, say researchers.

The animal is a primitive example of today's dominant mammals. "It's at the very root of this diverse and incredibly important group," says palaeontologist Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh1.

The mammal, Eomaia scansoria, might have scampered up a tree as a feathered dinosaur ran past. The animal's elongated digits suggest that it was adept at climbing; its name translates as 'dawn-mother climber'.

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[ValerieUSA]

'dawn-mother climber'

There's a name sure to be popular among the greenies who get lucky enough to actually reproduce without feeling so guilty that they abort the baby rather than inflict another human upon the earth. Either that or it's a new insulting name for drunken men to call each other.

[JAWs]

The mammal, Eomaia scansoria, might have scampered up a tree as a feathered dinosaur ran past.

Or, more likely, ran up the trees from the feathered dinosaurs.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Its pretty amazing that there was actually fur on the fossil. Those Archaeologists must be foaming at the mouth, bless their nerdy little hearts. Bump

[JAWs]

Actually it's palentologists. Archeologists study the artifacts of humans.

[sleavelessinseattle]

The distinction has escaped me for my entire life! So if a Paleontologist and an Archaeologist are working on a mummy, the Archaeo gets the jewelry and the Paleo gets the guts... got it. Thanks!

[ImaGraftedBranch]

'dawn-mother' is no relationship to me, but I understand it is Darwin's great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great

grandmother.

[Elsie]

The animal's elongated digits suggest that it was adept at climbing;

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Or...... they flashed their 'elongated middle digit' just once to often, and that is why they are extinct now!

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Precursor to bats?

[JAWs]

Actually the palentologist would likeley not be in the pyramid. The vast majority of his subject matter predates humanity.

[JAWs]

Actually the palentologist would likeley not be in the pyramid. The vast majority of his subject matter predates humanity.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Yeah, I kind of got that...Small Mind looks for easy mnemonic to save storage space better employed for attractive females' phone numbers who never return calls. Hope springs eternal!

[VadeRetro]

If I had a placenta, I'd be a rat!