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Mini Hedgehog and Tiny Tapir Fossils Found in Canada A miniature hedgehog smaller than a mouse

and a pint-sized tapir are the first mammals ever found at a fossil site in British columbia known for exquisitely preserved plants insects and fish.

& Tapir Fossils When they looked at it under a hand lens they realized it was a fossil vertebrate Eberle told Live Science.

The tapir was equally surprising. Greenwood and his colleagues found it in coal-rich rock beds in the park the site of a swampy spot in the Eocene

Balmy British columbia The tapir is a species of the Heptodon genus which is part of a group that is the oldest in the tapir lineage.

Species of Heptodon would have been about half the size of modern tapirs which weigh around 330 to 660 pounds (150 to 300 kilograms).(

During the time these creatures lived other animals were pipsqueaks too the earliest known horse

In the course of a single day and night I saw hyacinth and blue-and-yellow macaws brocket deer white-lipped peccary rhea jabiru stork roseate spoonbill wood stork the greater potoo capybara tapir

Jaguars, lowland tapirs, woolly spider-monkeys and giant anteaters are almost absent in Brazilian northeastern forests, which are among the most ancient and threatened tropical ecosystems on the planet.

"In most places, jaguars, tapirs, woolly spider-monkeys and white-lipped peccaries weren t even in living memory,

He was inspired after a colleague monitoring rare tapirs in Malaysia was bitten by a terrestrial leech (a common annoyance in tropical rainforests)

#Paradise found for Latin americas largest land mammalwildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs--the strange forest

and subsistence hunters WCS estimates at least 14500 lowland tapirs in the region. The population bridges five connected national parks in northwest Bolivia and southeastern Peru.

The study synthesizes 12 years of research on lowland tapirs in the region. Together with WCS studies on jaguars the results underscore the importance of this protected area complex for the conservation of Latin america's most charismatic terrestrial wildlife species. The Madidi-Tambopata landscape is estimated to hold a population of at least 14500 lowland

tapirs making it one of the most important strongholds for lowland tapir conservation in the continent said the study's lead author Robert Wallace.

The lowland tapir is the largest terrestrial mammal in South america weighing up to 300 kg (661 pounds.

Tapirs are found throughout tropical forests and grasslands in South america. However they are threatened by habitat loss and especially unsustainable hunting due to their large size low reproductive rate (1 birth every 2-3 years) and ease of detection at mineral licks in the rainforest.

Lowland tapirs are considered Vulnerable by the IUCN. WCS collected and systematized 1255 lowland tapir distribution records in the region.

These records came from research observations and camera trap photographs as well as interviews with park guards of Madidi Pilã n Lajas and Apolobamba National parks in Bolivia and Bahuaja Sonene and Tambopata National parks in neighboring Peru and subsistence hunters from 19 Takana

Camera trap data revealed that lowland tapir abundance was higher at sites under protection than sites outside protected areas.

At one site sampled over time the Tuichi River camera trapping has revealed that lowland tapir populations have been recovering following the creation of Madidi National park in 1995.

and wildlife including lowland tapirs including road construction logging unsustainable natural resource use and agricultural expansion. Julie Kunen WCS Director of Latin america and Caribbean Programs said:

#Ancient hedgehog and tapir once inhabited British Columbiathe Earth has experienced many dramatic changes in climate

and tapir that lived in what is now Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park British columbia some 52 million years ago.

The other mammal discovered at the site Heptodon is an ancient relative of modern tapirs

Heptodon was about half the size of today's tapirs and it lacked the short trunk that occurs on later species and their living cousins.

The discovery in northern British columbia of an early cousin to tapirs is intriguing because today's tapirs live in the tropics.

Its occurrence alongside a diversity of fossil plants that indicates a rainforest supports an idea put forward by others that tapirs

and their extinct kin are good indicators of dense forests and high precipitation said Eberle.

Previous studies by Eberle and colleagues showed the fauna there included ancestors of tapirs hippo-like creatures crocodiles and giant tortoises.