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	mammal's family tree predates the dinosaurs

doodleicious

8-2-2009 7:14 AM

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wow-look at this little guy

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2036018-3679-4699-8a8a-201573c422a9/DC7DDD04-6E4F-4834-8520-4F3D88B8AE7C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><H1>Mammals’ family tree predates the dinosaurs</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><H2>Tree-dwelling vertebrate, just identified, lived 260 million years ago</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/528FB5D7-486E-4958-AF23-81C20129D27F" alt="Image: Skeleton of tree-climbing synapsid Suminia getmanov" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><DIV class="caption">The skeleton of the tree-climbing synapsid Suminia getmanov, a 260-million-year-old animal which scientists believe was the first known tree-dweller. The tiny, agile animal predated the arrival of the dinosaurs and was a distant relative of humans and other mammals. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>The world's first known tree-dwelling <A href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/vertebrates-info.htm">vertebrate</A> has just been identified, according to a new study. The tiny, agile animal lived 30 million years before the first <A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/">dinosaurs</A> and was a distant relative of mammals, including humans. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>More than 15 near-complete skeletons of the 260-million-year-old animal, named Suminia getmanovi, reveal that it was built for an arboreal lifestyle. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32194062/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>"As the first tree-climbing vertebrate, Suminia had very long fore and hind limbs, with especially long hands and feet," lead author Jorg Frobisch told Discovery News. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC7DDD04-6E4F-4834-8520-4F3D88B8AE7C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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