Scientists have found a fossil of a mammal — part beaver, part otter, part platypus — that lived in China 164 million years ago.
Mark A. Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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Thomas Martin, an authority on early mammals at Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, said the find pushed back "the mammalian conquest of the waters by more than 100 million years" and "impressively contradicts" the conventional view.
"This exciting fossil," he wrote in a commentary accompanying the report, "is a further jigsaw puzzle piece in a series of recent discoveries, demonstrating that the diversity and early volutionary history of mammals were much more complex than perceived less than a decade ago."
Despite similarities with some modern animals, the Jurassic mammal has no modern descendants and is not related to any existing species. The discoverers have given it the name Castorocauda lutrasimilis, Latin for beaver tail and similarity to the otter.
Joyful swimmers all.
from QIM Tunes writer "Adrian" via facilitated communication.
First Seal and Opening Salvo:
"ADRIAN STEIN - LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, JOY STEIN
Aug. ‘93
Adrian: Dear Joy, I’m excited about coming home. Since our last meeting It has occurred to me that home is where the heart is. Joy is the sweetest otter in the world."
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Joy to the World, all the boys and girls now!
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea,
Joy to you and me!
3 Dog Night
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