The Buc-ee’s beaver may rule Texas interstates, but the state has been “beaver country” for millions of years, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin recently proved.
Researchers at UT-Austin rediscovered a species of an ancient beaver called Anchitheriomys buceei, or A. buceei.– The Buc-ee’s beaver may rule Texas interstates, but the state has been “beaver country” for millions of years, researchers at the University of Texas-Austin recently proved.
His findings, which were based on bones and archives in UT collections, were published in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica.” May and Brown, the director of the Jackson School’s vertebrate paleontology collection, “picked up where Hesse left off” 80 years later, the release said. “High-resolution X-ray images of the skull obtained at UT Austin’s Computed Tomography Lab brought small anatomical details of the skull into clear view,” the release states. “These details helped May and Brown confirm that the skull belonged to a new species.”was about 30% larger than beavers seen today but smaller than the beavers from the last Ice Age.
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