Rich Travs
Thu, Jul-18-02, 01:04
WITH HAIR IMPRESSIONS - wowee zowee
Three links.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/mammal0-
20424.html
Scientists say they've found the earliest known ancestor of an
evolutionary lineage that includes most of today's mammals, a
mouselike creature that lived 125 million years ago.
The fossil, found in northeastern China, is so well-preserved
it shows traces of fur, giving researchers some of their best
evidence yet on how mammals evolved during the age of
dinosaurs.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992210
Our earliest mammalian ancestor was a dormouse-like creature
that liked to rummage around in small shrubs. The tiny animal,
discovered stunningly preserved in a Chinese lake bed, could
fit in the palm of your hand.
Modern dormice also clamber nimbly through bushes (HPA)
Unusually, it reveals not only when placental mammals split
from marsupials, but also how they lived. Eomaia, which means
"ancient mother," comes from the Yixian formation, the source
of the famous feathered dinosaurs.
For most early mammals all we have to go on are a few tiny
teeth. But the nearly complete skeleton of Eomaia includes
tiny hand and toe bones, plus a clearly recognisable coat of
longer hair overlaying shorter fur.
About 16 centimetres long and 10 cm from nose to rump, Eomaia
resembled a large dormouse. Its long fingers and claws could
wrap around small twigs and grasp bark. Skeletal features show
it was closer to modern placental mammals than to marsupials,
so the two groups must have split before Eomaia came into
existence about 125 million years ago.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4196095%255E1-
702,00.html
SCIENTISTS have found a 125-million-year-old fossil of a
placental mammal
- the group which includes humans - the oldest such discovery
to date, the journal Nature reports in today's issue. ... It
has been given the scientific name Eomaia scansoria, from
the Greek Eo for dawn, maia for dawn and scansoria, from
Latin for its specialised features it used for climbing.
Three links.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/mammal0-
20424.html
Scientists say they've found the earliest known ancestor of an
evolutionary lineage that includes most of today's mammals, a
mouselike creature that lived 125 million years ago.
The fossil, found in northeastern China, is so well-preserved
it shows traces of fur, giving researchers some of their best
evidence yet on how mammals evolved during the age of
dinosaurs.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992210
Our earliest mammalian ancestor was a dormouse-like creature
that liked to rummage around in small shrubs. The tiny animal,
discovered stunningly preserved in a Chinese lake bed, could
fit in the palm of your hand.
Modern dormice also clamber nimbly through bushes (HPA)
Unusually, it reveals not only when placental mammals split
from marsupials, but also how they lived. Eomaia, which means
"ancient mother," comes from the Yixian formation, the source
of the famous feathered dinosaurs.
For most early mammals all we have to go on are a few tiny
teeth. But the nearly complete skeleton of Eomaia includes
tiny hand and toe bones, plus a clearly recognisable coat of
longer hair overlaying shorter fur.
About 16 centimetres long and 10 cm from nose to rump, Eomaia
resembled a large dormouse. Its long fingers and claws could
wrap around small twigs and grasp bark. Skeletal features show
it was closer to modern placental mammals than to marsupials,
so the two groups must have split before Eomaia came into
existence about 125 million years ago.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4196095%255E1-
702,00.html
SCIENTISTS have found a 125-million-year-old fossil of a
placental mammal
- the group which includes humans - the oldest such discovery
to date, the journal Nature reports in today's issue. ... It
has been given the scientific name Eomaia scansoria, from
the Greek Eo for dawn, maia for dawn and scansoria, from
Latin for its specialised features it used for climbing.