Biologists need to get out there and find some living ones. |
Every day, people would come up to his house and request medical help or ask for clothes or money. |
I'm just overwhelmed. I can't imagine how our country got in the situation, how we ever got here. We've got to get out. |
It is an amazing discovery and it's the coelacanth of rodents. It's the first time in the study of mammals that scientists have found a living fossil of a group that's thought to be extinct for roughly 11 million years. That's quite a gap. Previous mammals had a gap of only a few thousand to just over a million years. |
It looks like possibly one of the things that's been changing in family is improved cutting of vegetation. But over 11 million years you'd expect some differences in the structures. |
The chances are excellent that new discoveries will come from this parcel of land. |