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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on February 28, 2008, 07:48:01 PM
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Fossil finds are rabbit forebears
BBC
22 February 2008
Fossil hunters have found the remains of ancient mammals that were related to today's rabbits and hares.
The 53-million-year-old specimens consist of small ankle bones unearthed in Gujarat, central India.
They belong to early examples of an animal group called lagomorphs, which today comprises hares, rabbits and a hamster-like animal called a pika.
Full Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7253518.stm)
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History has to be revised. The Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War started 53 million years ago, when ptarmigans were still dinosaurs. Dinosaur extinction was caused by the ancestors of rabbits.
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