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ROUS's: They were real!

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1/16/08 at 7:38pm
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THE PRINCESS BRIDE: a historical novel?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/5460746.html

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Originally Posted by Associated Press
Extinct South American rodent was as big as a bull


By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press

LONDON — Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull.

Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that scurried across wooded areas of South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was not connected to North America.

A herbivore, the beast may have been a contemporary, and possibly prey, of saber-toothed cats — a prehistoric version of Tom and Jerry.


"Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist." Showed you, Wesley!
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post #2 of 3
1/17/08 at 1:19am
Hunted to extinction? Yum!
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post #3 of 3
1/17/08 at 4:19am
Call the Graveyard Shift!


* And... then... get them... a time machine...
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