UT researchers name ancient beaver fossil after Buc-ee's

The University of Texas Austin researchers rediscovered the species in the school's fossil collection and named itSteve May, a research associate at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences, said that the name was inspired by a chance encounter with a Buc-ee’s billboard while driving down a highway in 2020.

High-resolution X-ray images of the skull obtained at UT Austin’s Computed Tomography Lab brought small anatomical details of the skull into clear view. These details helped May and study co-author Matthew Brown, confirm that the skull belonged to a new species. But they weren’t the first to suspect it.

"New discoveries in the field capture lots of attention, but equally as valuable are the discoveries made in existing museum collections," Brown said. "We know that these opportunities are littered throughout the drawers in these cabinets."

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