ScienceShot: Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel | Science - AAAS
2011年11月2日 · Researchers have discovered the fossil remains of a 94-million-year-old squirrel-like critter with a long, narrow snout and a pair of curved saber-fangs that it would have likely used to pierce its insect prey.
Scientists Unveil Fossil Of 'Saber-Toothed Squirrel' That Lived Among ...
2011年11月3日 · The animal is reminiscent of Scrat, the fictional character from the film Ice Age, but the find is important scientifically because it closes a 60-million-year gap in the mammalian fossil...
Saber-toothed squirrels never lived during an ice age. (Sorry, Scrat.)
In the “Objects of Wonder” exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the creature is posed with its very own fossil walnut. The snack is from the same period, the Eocene, though it was found in present-day Oregon.
Saber-Toothed Squirrel Looked Like 'Ice Age' Scrat - Live Science
2011年11月2日 · Fossils reveal a new saber-toothed squirrel-like mammal that had long fangs and looked strikingly like the character named Scrat in the film "Ice Age," say the researchers.
Ancient "Saber-Toothed Squirrel" Found - National Geographic
2011年11月4日 · So in 2005 the scientists sent the skull to a technician, who spent three years removing the rock from around the fossil—finally revealing a saber-toothed, squirrel-like creature.
Saber-Toothed Squirrel Looked Like 'Ice Age' Scrat - Yahoo News
2011年11月2日 · "It looks somewhat like Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel from 'Ice Age,'" said researcher Guillermo Rougier, an anatomist and vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Louisville in...
"It looks somewhat like Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel from 'Ice Age,'" he said. Cartoon references aside, Rougier, Apesteguía and Gaetano realized
Ice Age's Scrat Discovered - Science 2.0
2011年11月3日 · A newly discovered fossil, found in South America, bears resemblance to Scrat, the sabre-toothed squirrel well-known for his antics in the Ice Age movies. In reality, though, the creature is known by the slightly more complicated name of Cronopio dentiacutus.
'Saber-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late ...
2011年11月3日 · The fossils break a roughly 60 million-year gap in the currently known mammalian record of the continent and provide new clues on the early evolution of mammals.
Paleontologists Find 231 Million Years Old 'Scrat,' A Saber …
2019年8月23日 · He noted that the appearance of the mammal was indeed very similar to Scrat: “The new species has a very long, flat, and shallow snout, and its very long fangs located almost at the tip of the snout, so the resemblance [to Scrat] is tremendous.
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