{"id":119649,"date":"2024-10-29T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119649"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:36:47","slug":"75-million-year-old-swamp-dweller-remains-discovered-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119649","title":{"rendered":"75 million-year-old &#8216;swamp dweller&#8217; remains discovered in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The fossilized remains of a nearly 75-million-year-old \u201cswamp dweller\u201d have been discovered by paleontologists in northwest Colorado. <\/p>\n<p>The University of Colorado team <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0310948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">behind the discovery<\/a> has been digging just outside of Rangely, Colorado for 15 years and recently unearthed one of their biggest, and strangest, findings yet \u2014 the jaw of a <em>Heleocola piceanus<\/em>, or \u201cvertebrate swamp dweller\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An artist\u2019s mock-up of what the vertebrate swamp dweller would\u2019ve likely looked like. <span class=\"credit\">Utah Field House of Natural History<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The swamp dweller looks just like what the name would suggest. It was a very rodent-like marsupial, just about the size of a muskrat, that weighed up to two pounds. However, this size was actually relatively large compared to most Cretaceous period mammals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not all tiny,\u201d Professor Jaelyn Eberle, curator of fossil vertebrates at the CU Museum of Natural History, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2024\/10\/23\/paleontologists-discover-colorado-swamp-dweller-lived-alongside-dinosaurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">CU Boulder Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>X-rays of the swamp dweller\u2019s recovered jaw. <span class=\"credit\">University of Colorado Boulder<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few animals emerging from the Late Cretaceous that are bigger than what we anticipated 20 years ago.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Before an asteroid wiped out nearly all non-avian animals 66 million years ago, mammals typically fell on the smaller side, usually with similar statures to modern day rats and mice, Eberle said. Because of that, many are largely identified through fossilized teeth. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>X-rays of the swamp dweller\u2019s recovered teeth. <span class=\"credit\">University of Colorado Boulder<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>70 million years ago, Colorado was nothing more than the inland sea, with the land surrounding it comprised of mainly marshes and swamp land. The fossil itself was found where the land and sea would\u2019ve met back then. <\/p>\n<p>The only inhabitants in the area, besides the swamp dweller, would\u2019ve likely included traditional marsh creatures like turtles and massive crocodiles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe region might have looked kind of like Louisiana,\u201d Rebecca Hunt-Foster, the study\u2019s co-author, told the CU Boulder Today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see a lot of animals that were living in the water quite happily like sharks, rays and guitarfish.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The paleontology team is credited with finding the swamp dweller fossil excavating in western Colorado. <span class=\"credit\">John and ReBecca Foster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The discovery team celebrated going off the beaten path and sticking to excavating in western Colorado for as long as they have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a small town, but, in my experience as a paleontologist, a lot of cool things come out of rural environments,\u201d Eberle told the CU Boulder Today. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see western Colorado have an exciting discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have scientists that come from all over the world specifically to study our fossils. We really are lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/28\/us-news\/75-million-year-old-swamp-dweller-remains-discovered-in-colorado\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossilized remains of a nearly 75-million-year-old \u201cswamp dweller\u201d have been discovered by paleontologists in northwest Colorado. The University of Colorado team behind the discovery has been digging just outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119649\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}