A beaver fossil found in western Montana is the oldest such specimen ever discovered. Find out how this 30-million-year-old missing link is helping to explain the astonishing diversity in mammal species on our planet.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://daretoknow.ca/2022/08/26/beaver-fossil-sheds-light-on-mammal-evolution/

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