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02-24-2006, 11:08 AM
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Jurassic Beaver
JURASSIC BEAVER
A beaver pond that date back to more than 3.5 million years has been uncovered on Ellesmere Island, some 1,900 kilometers north of Canada's tree line
The pond is locked in permafrost and so well preserved by the cold, and acid free soil conditions that wood bearing the cuts of beaver teeth from 3.5 million years ago is still fresh enough to burn.
Paleo-biologist Richard Harrington, of the Canadian Museum of Nature calculated the size of the beaver from the teeth marks and estimates that the ancient Castor Canadensis grew to the size of the modern-day bear before becoming extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Thats a lot of stuffing.
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02-24-2006, 12:27 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Is this topic going to degrade into beaver jokes? Just asking.
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02-24-2006, 12:30 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Since pretty much every other thread does, it would be pretty amazing if this one didn't
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02-24-2006, 12:30 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
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Is this topic going to degrade into beaver jokes?* Just asking.*
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Oh, I hope so!
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02-24-2006, 12:37 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Theres an easy connection to the 62 year old woman who just had the baby...
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02-24-2006, 12:40 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
You can still see the teeth marks? :P
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02-24-2006, 12:41 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
"Look at the bones!"
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Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. Just another form of "buy low, sell high" for those who have trouble with things. This rule is not universal. Do not buy a 1973 Pinto because everyone else is afraid of it.
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02-24-2006, 12:47 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
I know there's bait for cube_rat in this thread. I'm going to exercise restraint... Think baseball, yeah, er, how about those Giants?
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02-24-2006, 01:11 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Maybe we can take some beaver dna from some amber. Does anybody know a girl named Amber? 
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02-24-2006, 01:14 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Maybe we can snatch some... :P
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02-24-2006, 01:22 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
Maybe it's Winona's Big Brown Beaver that Primus sang about in Tales from the Punchbowl...
or perhaps not.
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02-24-2006, 08:36 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
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Maybe we can take some beaver dna from some amber. Does anybody know a girl named Amber? |
Absolutely.
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02-24-2006, 10:23 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
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Is this topic going to degrade into beaver jokes?* Just asking.*
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I work on a lake that has beavers, I wanted to see them but was told you have to come to work at 5 AM. The coworker emailed me a photo of our beaver so I mailed it home to my boyfriend titled Beaver Shot, he likes beavers. I have it as wallpaper at work.
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02-25-2006, 12:27 AM
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Big Wet Beavers
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02-25-2006, 09:09 PM
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Re: Jurassic Beaver
beaver jokes?
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