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Beaver Temporal range: 24–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent
North American beaver (Castor canadensis)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Faimily:	Castoridae
Subfaimily:	Castorinae
Genus:	Castor Linnaeus, 1758
Speshies
C. fiber – Eurasie beaver C. canadensis – North American beaver †C. californicus
Beaver range map

A beaver (genus: Castor) is a muckle rodent that bides in watter. Thare is twa kynds o beavers; Castor canadensis, fund in North Americae, an Castor fiber, fund in Eurasie. Thay are kent maist as ainimals that bigs thair ludges as timmer dams in burns.

A kynd o Shetland sheep wis kent as a beaver acause o its fine fur awfu lik doun that growed aneath lang, coorse hair.

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