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Dog-Sized Giant Rat Fossils Discovered


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Canberra archaeologists have found fossils of giant rats the size of small dogs.

A team from the Australian National University discovered seven species of large rats during a recent trip to East Timor.

The species would have looked similar to modern rats but ranged in size from about 1.5 kilograms to five kilograms.

http://www.abc.net.a...ed-rats/6918658

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Some of these cities have rats the size of small dogs. Are they evolving back to what they once were?

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We need the big cats to roam freely again ... ~

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We need the big cats to roam freely again ... ~

Cue the modified Jaws-quote; "-We're gonna need a bigger cat"

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Smaller than a nutria.

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Harte

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imagine the Black Rats being the size of this rodent!!!

:o

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The Texas couple who share their home with an EIGHT-STONE capybara named Gary... and even let him sleep in their bed

Finding an eight-stone rodent on the couch would see most people racing for the phone to dial pest control.

But it's a daily occurrence for Melanie Typaldos, 57 and her husband Richard Loveman, 54, who share their home in Buda, Texas, with a giant capybara named Gary.

Ms Typaldos adopted Gary after falling in love with the semi-aquatic mammals - the world's largest rodent - during a holiday in Venezuela,

Source: http://www.dailymail...named-Gary.html

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There sure is some weird big animals lost to the sands of time.

Animals that we often forget about, since the most focus is on the larger dinosaurs.

Animals like; mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, glyptodons, giant ground sloths, Irish elk, cave bears, and short-faced bears, who were related to their, significantly smaller, cousins that are alive now.

Like the Demon Duck of Doom (Bullockornis)

The name makes you wanna laugh, but I bet you wouldn't laugh if you met one.

They were big, fast, and carnivorous - and they were related to today's average duck & geese.

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Or the Dromornis.

Also big, fast, and carnivorous.

In fact, it was bigger than the Demon Duck of Doom.

Imagine a flock of those on your ass!?!

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Cavemen said they tasted just like chicken.

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Around this time of the year, field mice try to sneak indoors before the winter...now imagine 5 kg rodents doing that! They wouldn't sneak, it would be "breaking & entering", we would need guillotines instead of traps, and leopards instead of domestic cats.. I am so glad they're extinct :yes:

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Seems an expected find? This is what the people of Floresiensis were eating in that part of the world isn't it?

That and tiny Elephants.

Weird huh, huge rats and tiny elephants, nature, hrmmzzz.

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Cavemen said they tasted just like chicken.��

That chicken said that about the cavemen too!

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They had more room to move about and grow in then, not quite the same as living in the sewers under the modern town streets.

But as usual man comes a long and flattens their land and eats them to extinction.

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Shades of Stephen King's Graveyard Shift; but, instead of humans as prey, I tend to agree that it was probably humans that hunted these out of existence.

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Yeah, the size of this one would do.

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Nice kitty !

Add this trap, then we're done :

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By a strange coincidence, our family has a rat sized dog, a Chihuahua.

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