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GIANT RAT FOSSIL SIZE OF CAR FOUND IN SOUTH AMERICA
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[quote:shameless agitating fuck 355415:MV80ODkyMTBfNzUzODkxOF83NUQyMDU3QQ==] I heard shit was bigger in the past because jungles covered everything, lots of plant life means lots of animal life and because the jungles were in such abundance everything was really big, then something happened, no ones sure for certain, but I like the air pressure thing, anyway I heard all the vast jungles got stripped away by ClImAtE cHaNgE cause by god knows what, they cant agree on anything, but I like the theory that lots of stuff slowly died off and the stuff that didn't slowly evolved to become smaller, the theory goes that many of those fossils are still walking about today looking slightly different. MaYbE iT wAs AlIeNs PlAyInG aT gOd, TrYing To CrEaTe SoMeThInG iN thEiR iMaGe, I LikEd tHe AnGeL thEoRy ToO, jUsT fUcKin aRoUnD WiTh GodS cReAtIoNs fOr ThEiR oWn AmUsEmEnT, bUt EvOlUTiOn sOuNdS thE mOsT pLaUsIbLe, dont ya think ? [/quote]
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The fossilised skull of a rat the size of a car has been unearthed. The creature lived about four million years ago, weighed about a tonne and ate mostly soft vegetation. It was so big that it probably spent much of its life semi-submerged in water, like a hippo, to reduce the stresses caused by its size.
Palaeontologists found the skull in rock deposits in Uruguay. It is believed to date back two to four million years to a time when giant wildlife was commonplace in South America.
The rodent, Josephoartigasia monesi, was uncovered by Andrés Rinderknecht and Ernesto Blanco. It has been nicknamed Mighty Mouse and is thought to have been similar to the capybara and pacarana, much smaller creatures that are still found in South America. Capybaras are the biggest living rodents at just over 60kg fully grown, while pacaranas weigh 15kg. The common rat weighs about 300g.
J. monesi is thought to have weighed about a tonne and the biggest specimens could have been more than 2.5 tonnes — about the same as hippopotamuses, which range from 1.4 tonnes to 3.2 tonnes.
The rodent was estimated to be about 3m (10 feet) long and 1.5m tall. Its huge incisors were more than 30cm (12in) long, of which 10cm would have been exposed.
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