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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 11:23 am
rolanni: (Scrabble plotting)
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The fossilised skull of the largest rodent ever recorded has been described by scientists for the first time.

The remains of the one-tonne beast, found in Uruguay, indicate that it would have been as big as a bull.

It is thought that the three-metre-long herbivore would have roamed estuaries and forests 2-4 million years ago.


Read all about it.

Date: 2008-01-16 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancinghorse.livejournal.com
It's the Giant Rat of Sumatra!

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Date: 2008-01-17 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookmobiler.livejournal.com
I hope you were kind and didn't tell your cats about this.:)

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