Rat-Squirrel Not Extinct After All!

[Split Rock]

Scientists have recently discovered a rodent in central Laos that represents a family (the Distomydae, a family of rodents that lived in south Asia and Japan) thought to be extinct for 11 million years, nicknamed the Laotian Rock Rat. It has the face of a rat anf the tail of a skinny squirrel.
(http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060309/D8G8A7UG2.html)

I have a question from Dr. Dino: If evolution is true, why haven't these rat-squirrels evolved into monkeys after 11 million years???

 

[f U z ! o N]

edit nvm

 

[Edx]

how can a species go extinct 11 million years ago and reappear?
im curious

We just found it again.

 

[Dr.GH]

I will expect much more data before I buy the notion that the fossil and modern species are the same.

 

[Split Rock]

I will expect much more data before I buy the notion that the fossil and modern species are the same.

F.Y.I. They are only supposed to be in the same family as the extinct species.

 

[Hydra009]

We just found it again.

Have you ever lost a sock and then found it years later?

It's like that.

And it's quite a cute species.

 

[futzman]

I want one. When will they be available as pets?

Futz
Still wondering about all those brachiopods...

 

[Edx]

It does just look like a rat with a big squirrel tail. heh

 

[Asimov]

That looks like my sisters cat.