Giant squid? How about a giant rat?

[Calvin]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 9:13pm

I think I saw one of these in the Columbus Circle station. From The (London) Times:

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.

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