UT researchers name newly-discovered ancient beaver species after Buc-ee's

May decided the name would be appropriate for the beaver after seeing a Buc-ee's billboard declaring:"This is Beaver Country."

“I thought, ‘Yeah, it is beaver country, and it has been for millions of years,’” May said, according to a news release.did not name the brand for the animal . Buc-ee's got its name and logo from founder and CEO Arch Aplin II, whose childhood nickname was"Beaver," and who had a dog named Buck. From a partial skull fossil, which was originally collected by a team of paleontologists in 1941, researchers discovered the beaver was a species never before seen. According to the news release, a museum curator passed away in 1945 before naming the species and finishing his research.

Instead of uncovering a fossil in the field, May, along with Matthew Brown, the director of the Jack School's vertebrate paleontology collections, looked toward the existing museum collection to finish the research and finally name the beaver.lived 15 million years ago in what would now be considered Texas. It is also said to have been about 30 percent larger than modern beavers.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

It never gets any more Texas than this. 😉

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