Where's the Science?

No they weren't. Interesting paper, but these reporters didn't understand. Some viruses leave bits of their DNA in the animals they infect which can actually be passed on to those animal's children. This is often called "fossil DNA" even though it is found in modern animals, because it from a virus long dead. In this case that happened a long time ago, but they evidence was from a modern rodent, caught in New York State.

Actual article with no mention of fossil animals here:

Batman gets schooled in Paleontology.

His Charms make Lucky Leprechaun incredibly powerful.

Please refer to the previous post to see what has got me all riled up!

This is so wrong I went down to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California and got an actual Wolverine skull to show you.

Their genus is Gulo from the latin for "glutton" because these hungry little guys will eat everything and a lot of it.

It is true that they eat frozen carcasses (even fighting bears for them). But no mammal can rotate its teeth. One of the things that makes us mammals is that we have teeth that fit together and we have sacrificed to have this feature, called occlusion. We had to give up on cool things like snake-like mobile teeth and shark-like tooth replacement to keep our teeth neatly in a row.

Bottom line Discovery: The teeth don't move. Here are the teeth, sitting at 90 degrees to each other, forever fixed that way. See I even tried to move them!

I think Discovery looked at this good webpage and got the biology wrong.

Discovery has really cashed it in recently; lying to scientists to get them to appear on Shark Week is the worst example.

But this mistake is unforgivably dumb. On their North American Facts page they make many mistakes, and provide unchecked information - don't trust it!! In addition to nature info they also inexplicably provide lots of facts about Little Debbie snack cakes. WTF?

They claim the above: that Wolverines have teeth that "can rotate 90°". 

Rio de Janeiro graffiti is awesome. The fenestrae in the back of the skull are missing though, and the mandibular fenestra is far too large. We'll give them the win and assume their model T. rex was just damaged.