Thursday, September 18, 2003
Attack of the Giant Guinea Pig!
Eight-million years ago, a cow-sized cousin of today's guinea pig roamed around Venezuela. "Imagine a weird guinea pig, but huge, with a long tail for balancing on its hind legs and continuously growing teeth," says one of the German scientists now studying Phoberomys pattersoni after finding an "exceptionally complete" skeleton. Link
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