UT Austin researchers have named a new species of ancient beaver after Buc-ee's, the Texas-based chain of travel centers. The beaver, named Anchitheriomys...
Inspiration for the fossil’s name struck Steve May, a research associate at UT Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, while driving home from fossil work. “This is Beaver Country,” said a Buc-ee’s billboard on the side of the road.
Matthew Brown and Steve May with beaver skulls new and old in the vertebrate paleontology collections at the Jackson School of Geosciences. Brown, the director of the collections, holds a skull from a modern North American Beaver. May, a research associate, holds a skull from Anchitheriomys buceei, a new species of ancient beaver that he discovered in the collections and named.
May and Matthew Brown, director of the Jackson School’s vertebrate paleontology collections, X-rayed the inside of the fossil and examined tiny holes at the edge of the skull called foramina, where nerves and blood vessels pass through. Those clues helped them determine that this beaver skull belonged to a new species.The skull was originally collected by Texas paleontologists in 1941.
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