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Automobologists Discover World's Oldest Car
Automobologists digging in the Southern region of Inner Mongolia today announced their most recent discovery: the remains of a seventy-five million year old car.
The dig, lead by Professor Richard Acer of the Bigfoot University, Illinois, was undertaken following the relative success of similar digs lead by Cambridge University scholars. Professor Acer and his team revealed that they have so far uncovered both the front and rear axle, steering column, exhaust system and front windshield of the automobile. Work at the dig site is expected to produce further examples of automobile parts, which will then be painstakingly recorded and incorporated into a museum display similar to those featured in hit Hollywood comedy Night At The Museum II starring Ben Stiller.
The previously unknown genus will likely be named R.Acer Carus, after it's discoverer. However, Professor Acer had indicated that his wife, fellow automobologist Francine Acer Phd, might be credited with the find.
As well as being the oldest automobile experts have discovered, it is also amongst the smallest. Estimates measure the automobile at no longer than six feet in length. Like other automobiles dating from the Cretaceous Period, the automobile was probably a herbivore, consuming hay, coal and Fanta. The earliest known carnivorous automobiles did not begin to evolve until at least Palæogenic period, approximately 65.5 million years ago.
Automobiles are known to have existed in the wild for tens of millions of years, and may not have been domesticated until as recently as 30,000 BCE.
source: Reuters
Automobologists digging in the Southern region of Inner Mongolia today announced their most recent discovery: the remains of a seventy-five million year old car.
The dig, lead by Professor Richard Acer of the Bigfoot University, Illinois, was undertaken following the relative success of similar digs lead by Cambridge University scholars. Professor Acer and his team revealed that they have so far uncovered both the front and rear axle, steering column, exhaust system and front windshield of the automobile. Work at the dig site is expected to produce further examples of automobile parts, which will then be painstakingly recorded and incorporated into a museum display similar to those featured in hit Hollywood comedy Night At The Museum II starring Ben Stiller.
The previously unknown genus will likely be named R.Acer Carus, after it's discoverer. However, Professor Acer had indicated that his wife, fellow automobologist Francine Acer Phd, might be credited with the find.
As well as being the oldest automobile experts have discovered, it is also amongst the smallest. Estimates measure the automobile at no longer than six feet in length. Like other automobiles dating from the Cretaceous Period, the automobile was probably a herbivore, consuming hay, coal and Fanta. The earliest known carnivorous automobiles did not begin to evolve until at least Palæogenic period, approximately 65.5 million years ago.
Automobiles are known to have existed in the wild for tens of millions of years, and may not have been domesticated until as recently as 30,000 BCE.
source: Reuters