As paleontologist Grant Zazula, noted, "I think anytime anyone sees [a] giant beaver skull, they’re like, 'Wow, it must have been a saber-tooth cat and eating people…You have this animal that ...

A giant beaver skull, right, compared to a modern beaver skull at the State Museum in Albany. A female, left, and male specimen of Labrador ducks at the State Museum in Albany. Only 25 specimens ...