Skull of 2M-yr-old giant dormouse reconstruct

[Still Waters]

A Ph.D. student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.

In a new study, the student from Hull York Medical School, has digitally pieced together fossilised fragments from five giant dormouse skulls to reconstruct the first known complete skull of the species.

The researchers estimate that the enormous long-extinct rodent was roughly the size of a cat, making it the largest species of dormouse ever identified.

The digitally reconstructed skull is 10 cm long—the length of the entire body and tail of many types of modern dormouse.

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-reconstructs-skull-million-year-old-giant.html

[SHaYap]

The cheese back then must've been awesome... 

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[jethrofloyd]

How big the cats were then back at that time..!

[Jon the frog]

Giant rodents always make me think about ROUS