Ladies and gentlerodents, may we present Anchitheriomys buceei. Or “A. buceei” for short.
“I thought, ‘Yeah, it is beaver country, and it has been for millions of years,’” May said.
High-resolution X-ray images of the skull done at the University of Texas helped May and Brown confirm that the skull belonged to a new species.
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