"Mammoth Capybara” Discovery In South America :: Oblate Spheroid

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"Mammoth Capybara” Discovery In South America :: Oblate Spheroid by Edmund Jenks

Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent
that ever lived -- a one-ton behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South
America some four million years ago. Graphic Credit: AFP/GUSTAVO LECUONA

Tags: Life, species, comparison, Discovery, reconstruction, South America, COW, fossil, Strange, skull, rat, huge, member, RATS, RODENT, largest, makes, pygmy, lived, Montevideo, vermin, rodentia, Capybara, Lecuona, newly-identified, greatest-known, Josephoartigasia, monesi, shrew

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Title: "Mammoth Capybara” Discovery In South America :: Oblate Spheroid

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Created: Wed, 01/16/2008 - 7:18am

Modified: Wed, 01/16/2008 - 7:19am

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