A fossil found on the land of the Bureau of Land Management is believed to be the earliest record of living beavers in North America.

The fossils were found by the employees of Bureau of Land Management in north-east Oregon. According to a report by The Albany Democrat-Herald, the teeth come from the Rattlesnake Formation and are about 7 to 7.3 million years old.

Earliest beavers were found in Germany about 10 to 12 million years ago and they spread across the world including to North America through the Bering Land Bridge. The latest fossils will be displayed at the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.