Fossil of 'our earliest ancestors' found in Dorset

[Biskit]

Fossils of the oldest-known ancestors of most living mammals, including human beings, have been unearthed in southern England.

Teeth belonging to the extinct shrew-like creatures, which scampered at the feet of dinosaurs, were discovered in cliffs on the Dorset coast.

Fossil of 'our earliest ancestors' revealed

 

[Nick B]

So... We all came from Dorset?

 

[Matteo]

Or to put it another way:

Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain

Fascinating stuff.

By the way, have you seen some of the comments on the BBC site! Nice to know things are more civilised on Chrons.

 

[Biskit]

By the way, have you seen some of the comments on the BBC site! Nice to know things are more civilised on Chrons.

I hadn't seen them until you mentioned it. Now I regret going to look.

 

[Ursa major]

So... We all came from Dorset?

That won't stop you from also being a Grockle....

 

[J Riff]

Ah yes, shrewd creatures, yet the giant shrews went extinct by running off the white cliffs of Dorset.

 

[BAYLOR]

So... We all came from Dorset?

Did they find any voting records on the fossil bed?

 

[Ursa major]

Only fault lines.