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acroyearJust like the coelacanths, another animal family thought to be extinct (for 11 million years) may be alive after all!
In central Laos, they have found an animal that closely resembles the long since extinct "Rat-Squirrel". Scientists haven't caught a living one yet for fuller analsys, but are still hopeful.
[note on the reporting: it would be unlikely that it could be the same "species" as the 11 million year old ancestors, merely the same family in the same way that we're in the same family as our 11 million year old pre-human ancestors. That we changed more drastically from them than this specimen did in comparison to its fossil ancestor is mostly irrelevant.]
In central Laos, they have found an animal that closely resembles the long since extinct "Rat-Squirrel". Scientists haven't caught a living one yet for fuller analsys, but are still hopeful.
[note on the reporting: it would be unlikely that it could be the same "species" as the 11 million year old ancestors, merely the same family in the same way that we're in the same family as our 11 million year old pre-human ancestors. That we changed more drastically from them than this specimen did in comparison to its fossil ancestor is mostly irrelevant.]
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Date: 2006-03-09 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-09 08:59 pm (UTC)This is just for variety. Sometimes you just need to try a new flavour of potato chip.
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Date: 2006-03-09 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-09 09:22 pm (UTC)Well done.
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Date: 2006-03-09 09:23 pm (UTC)