(latest Cretaceous). The genus has a single species, Bharattherium
bonapartei. It is part of the gondwanathere family Sudamericidae, which
is also found in Madagascar and South America during the latest
Cretaceous. The first fossil of Bharattherium was discovered in 1989 and
published in 1997, but the animal was not named until 2007, when two
teams independently gave it different names. The specific name
bonapartei honors Argentinean paleontologist José Bonaparte, who was
the first to describe a gondwanathere fossil. Bharattherium is known
from a total of eight isolated fossil teeth, including one incisor and
seven molariforms (molar-like teeth). Bharattherium molariforms are
high, curved teeth, with a height of 5.97 to 8.40 mm. The tooth enamel
has traits that have been interpreted as protecting against cracks in
the teeth. The hypsodont (high-crowned) teeth of sudamericids like
Bharattherium is reminiscent of later grazing mammals, and the discovery
of grass in Indian fossil sites contemporaneous with those yielding
Bharattherium suggest that sudamericids were indeed grazers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharattherium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over
increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in
greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion>
1802:
English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy
encountered a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to pen his most
famous work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud>
1958:
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Francisco Giants played in the first Major League Baseball game on
the US West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley>
1989:
A human crush during an FA Cup semi-final match between
Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield,
England (memorial pictured), caused 96 deaths, the most of any stadium-
related disaster in British history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster>
1995:
At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco,
representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed an
agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eschatology:
1. (countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
2. (uncountable) The study of the end times — the end of the world,
notably in Christian theology the second coming of Christ, the
Apocalypse or the Last Judgment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eschatology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as
compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later
precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the
successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its
energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole
life of the man who thought it.
--Harold W. Percival
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harold_W._Percival>
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