Still Waters Posted January 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Six million years ago, the wetlands and river valleys of southwestern China were full of life: tapirs and small deer strolled the shores, and the waters brimmed with clams. Swimming and striding through it all was a huge otter—described today for the first time—that weighed in at around 50 kilograms, twice the size of today’s otters. That’s about the same as modern wolves and among the largest otters that ever lived. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/enormous-otters-once-roamed-southwestern-china 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted January 23, 2017 #2 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Otters are cute...giant otters are kind of scary though. Glad they lived 6 million years ago! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted January 23, 2017 Author #3 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I like otters and have only ever seen some in a wildlife park. It would be nice to see one in the wild, a normal sized one that is! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.United_Nations Posted January 23, 2017 #4 Share Posted January 23, 2017 3 hours ago, Lilly said: Otters are cute...giant otters are kind of scary though. Glad they lived 6 million years ago! The amazon otters are fairly large Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted January 23, 2017 #5 Share Posted January 23, 2017 4 hours ago, Lilly said: Otters are cute...giant otters are kind of scary though. Glad they lived 6 million years ago! The normal sized ones are a bit frisky too, as a 15 year old the late British Wildlife presenter Terry Nutkins lost the end of two fingers to a Eurasian otter called Edal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted January 23, 2017 #6 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Six million years ago, the wetlands and river valleys of southwestern China were full of life: Well this can not be put down to over fishing or pollution by the Chinese, today is a different story. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Cooper Merrin Posted January 23, 2017 #7 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Why is it that all fauna are getting progressively smaller? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbloodmoon Posted January 24, 2017 #8 Share Posted January 24, 2017 me likey the giant otter.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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