It's a rat -- it's a squirrel -- it's neither! It's a living fossil!! It's known as Diatomyidae; scientists have nicknamed it the Laotian rock rat.

Photos Taken of 'Living Fossil' in Laos[/URL]

Kell

The link didn't work for me, the error page came up. =( Sounds interesting, would love to see the pic. Will try and do a google on it later and see if I can get to it that way. Time to go and rest for a bit for now, been a long night. =)

Hmm, they must have taken it down to make room for other news (it was on the Discovery Channel site).

Anyhow, try this: Laotian rock rat - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/URL]
If you scroll down a bit on that page, under "Discovery", you'll see the pic of the living one they found.

Kell

That is so awesome! I love it when we find animals that we thought were gone forever. =)

This is really a great find! I wonder how many other species we thought were gone are just in hiding?

Er, um, being sold as meat?
Yeah, yummy. =(

It is pretty exciting. 11 million years is a long time to hide out. That's one intense game of hide and go seek.
399,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998..............346,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,................400,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,....ready or not, here I come..... HEY, where'd everyone go?!?!?! =)

Nakis, I really must send you my recipe! (NOT!) LMAO!

This is pretty amazing, though. =)

Mare