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Giant otters once roamed southwestern China


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Six million years ago, the wetlands and river valleys of southwestern China were full of life: tapirs and small deer strolled the shores, and the waters brimmed with clams. Swimming and striding through it all was a huge otter—described today for the first time—that weighed in at around 50 kilograms, twice the size of today’s otters. That’s about the same as modern wolves and among the largest otters that ever lived. 

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/enormous-otters-once-roamed-southwestern-china

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I like otters and have only ever seen some in a wildlife park. It would be nice to see one in the wild, a normal sized one that is!

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3 hours ago, Lilly said:

Otters are cute...giant otters are kind of scary though. Glad they lived 6 million years ago!

The amazon otters are fairly large

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4 hours ago, Lilly said:

Otters are cute...giant otters are kind of scary though. Glad they lived 6 million years ago!

The normal sized ones are a bit frisky too, as a 15 year old the late British Wildlife presenter Terry Nutkins lost the end of two fingers to a Eurasian otter called Edal.  

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Six million years ago, the wetlands and river valleys of southwestern China were full of life: 

Well this can not be put down to over fishing or pollution  by the Chinese, today is a different story.

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Why is it that all fauna are getting progressively smaller? 

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me likey the giant otter....

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