China's 'Jurassic Park' yields feathered dinosaurs, earliest swimming mammal & strange salamanders

The London Daily Mail ^ | March 6, 2014 | Sarah Griffiths

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A 'Jurassic Park' in China was once home to dinosaurs that lived among early mammals, amphibians and other strange creatures 160 million years ago.

The extraordinary fossil bed contains the bones of pterosaurs - early mammals – including the first known swimming mammal with a beaver-like tail, the earliest gliding mammal and feathered dinosaurs.

Their remarkably preserved remains were discovered in rocks beneath the Jehol Biota in north eastern China - a famous collection of 130 million-year-old fossils from the Cretaceous Period.

The latest discovery sheds light on life in the Middle-Upper Jurassic 30million years earlier when birds are believed to have evolved from feathered dinosaurs.

The newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossils have been named the Daohugou fossils or Daohugou Biota after a village near one of the six sites dug up and have been catalogued and described in detail....

[shibumi]

Strange Chinese Salamander Ping!

[smokingfrog]

[smokingfrog]

[lafroste]

As I’ve always said: If it walks, crawls, swims, slithers, or flies and lives in China, it’s nervous.

[skinkinthegrass]

I'm farther up the evolutionary ladder.. hehe.

[skinkinthegrass]

bon apatite! ..good eats-chinese style.

[Salamander]

“strange salamanders”

This is redundant.

[Salamander]

Aaaaiieeeee!!!

Mom!!!

[Salamander]

8:P

[Salamander]

LOL

[oh, wait....eeeyew!]

;]

[shibumi]

As I learned all too well back in 69-70 the answer to the question "What's for dinner?" over there is one word -

"Everything."

[tet68]

So, you gonna be one from column A or two from column B.?

[Vince Ferrer]

[Salamander]

Bleah.

#-P

[smokingfrog]

[Eagles6]

Just big mud puppies.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

SUSHI!!!

[gleeaikin]

SC, you may want to repost this for your ping people.

[lafroste]

but you really try the boiled mice and beetles sometime. I did.