Posts Tagged: ancient beavers

Ancient beavers, belonging to the fossil lineage Dipoides, lived four million years ago and were approximately two-thirds the size of living Canadian beavers. Researchers believe they gnawed trees for harvesting food not to build dams.

Ancient beavers cut trees for food first, not to build dams

August 4, 2020

By studying the wood-cutting behaviour of ancient beavers that once roamed the Canadian high Arctic, an international team of scientists…