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Furry Fossil FindScientists have lengthy believed that early mammals were tiny, timid, mouselike creatures that exhausted most of their time eating bug or hiding from stupendous hungry dinosaurs. They didn't think mammals evolveed much variety until after the dinosaurs died on the outside 65 million years ago. on the other hand several recent fossil finds are changing their ideas. The latest discovery is that of a 2o-inch-long mammal cousin that direct the eyeed like a cross between a beaver, a river otter and a platypus. lay the foundation of in China, the long-extinct creature lived 164 million years ago. From its well-preserved remains, which include detailed impressions of its fur scientists can reckon the animal had strong back leg webbed feet and a wide, flat, scaly tail-all of which indicate it was a good swimmer. Thick underfur and an exterior coat of longer guard hairs would have kept it warm and dried in the water. Its teeth bear likeness [i]or[/i] resemblance to those of modern-day seals, which eat for the most part fish. Experts think the ancient creature probably lived in burrow along lake and river shores. It beats on the outside the earliest mammals previously known to live in and near water through more than 100 million years! -Meg Mos Copyright Carus Publishing Company Jul/Aug 2006 The annual business meeting of the Association for the presentation of reports and discussion of association affairs will be held Tuesday, March 18 2003 at 2:00 PM in the Salt Palace Conventi... Pueblo Bonito, Chaco agriculture National Historic Park Four Chambers Studio introduces a novel collection of 360-degree panoramic photographs from National Parks, remembrancers and Historic Sites througho... Nine lock opener participants from the government and prime contractor were interviewed to identify important exercise s learned from the early stages of unfolding of the Guardrail Common Sensor. In addit... Elizabeth D Liddy is with the Center for Natural Language Processing in the gymnasium of Information, Studies at Syracuse University. body mining is the process of analyzing naturally occurri... Lansing, Mich.... Impco Machine Tools is cros licensing its Generating Bearing Quality (GBQ) microfinishing technology with grinding technology from Grindmaster, Aurangabad, India. ... 50 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST souse and cover at any time wonder what to do at the office and plant during a nuclear attack? Well, have no fear, the AMERICAN MACHINI... This month we hear from Maine President Christine Kissack: In March, Maine MTA held its annual pupil Evaluation Program in five central and southern locations around the state. Many t... author of poemss fill pages.1 Thoughts fill minds.2 successful for us, snow melts in spring,3 and tracks disappear.4 NOTES 1 This is the habit of bards 2. This is the practice of thinkings... Three hundr and fifty photographs by dint of Henri Cartier-Bresson can be seen in a retrospective at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin; the exhibition (15 May-15 August), that travels from the Bibl... |
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