Toothy Mammal Named "Luck" Coexisted With Dinosaurs - Polidicks

[img]http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/mammal-luck.jpg[/img] [quote]A veggie-eating mammal appropriately named "Luck" somehow managed to live alongside several large carnivorous dinosaurs in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous, according to a new study. The 66-70-million-year-old mammal, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, is one of the largest known Dinosaur Era mammals. Named Vintana ("Luck") sertichi, it weighed about 20 pounds, or roughly twice the size of a modern day groundhog, which it resembled. "This is enormous for a Mesozoic mammal, most of which were shrew or mouse-sized, living in the shadow of dinosaurs," project leader David Krause told Discovery News. "There were both large (such as Majungasaurus) and small (such as Masiakasaurus and Rahonavis) carnivorous dinosaurs that lived alongside Vintana, not to mention large sauropod dinosaurs (Rapetosaurus, Vahiny), seven different types of crocodiles, both large and small snakes, a giant frog, 6–7 species of birds, a lizard, several fishes and more," added Krause, who led the research and is a professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. Joseph Sertich, a former graduate student of Krause's, found Vintana's nearly complete cranium by fortuitous accident in a sandstone block otherwise filled with fish fossils. The block was unearthed in what is now Madagascar.[/quote]

Look like beavers

And to think, some poor T-Rex had to relive February the 2nd over and over until he made an effort to improve himself, all because of this beefy guy. But in all seriousness, that's pretty damn cool to see such a big mammal in a reptile's world. D'you think its kind survived past the nuclear winter and evolved past that point? Considering the conditions after the big rock hit, I presume that the smaller specimens would have had a better chance at survival since they wouldn't burn through the sparse vegetation as quickly as a larger 'hog woulda, though we don't know if there's a distinct link between the "Luck" giant groundhogs and modern groundhogs. Also, do we have an article link for this? I believe it's customary.

[quote]not to mention large sauropod dinosaurs ([b]Rapetosaurus[/b], Vahiny)[/quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/lb9UaNn.jpg[/img] [editline]23rd February 2015[/editline] Here's a link to the news article. [url]http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/toothy-mammal-named-luck-coexisted-with-dinosaurs-141105.htm[/url]

[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;47197633][img]http://i.imgur.com/lb9UaNn.jpg[/img] [editline]23rd February 2015[/editline] Here's a link to the news article. [url]http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/toothy-mammal-named-luck-coexisted-with-dinosaurs-141105.htm[/url][/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZYpuHLn.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("image macro / meme" - Orkel))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Troll;47197903]Stupid fucking meme[/QUOTE] Yeah no.

[QUOTE=Troll;47197903][img]what are you doing[/img][/QUOTE] Damn what Egyptian tomb did you dig that one up from

[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;47197633][img]http://i.imgur.com/lb9UaNn.jpg[/img] [editline]23rd February 2015[/editline] Here's a link to the news article. [url]http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/toothy-mammal-named-luck-coexisted-with-dinosaurs-141105.htm[/url][/QUOTE] The dinosaurs got raped by luck in more than one way

Also shown, in the center, how two of these mammals might propagate their species

was'nt humans like rat things during this time.