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. 2003 Sep 19;301(5640):1678-9.
doi: 10.1126/science.1090964.

Evolution. Enhanced: A rodent as big as a buffalo

R McNeill Alexander  1
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Evolution. Enhanced: A rodent as big as a buffalo

R McNeill Alexander. Science. .

Abstract

The largest living rodent is the South American capybara, a creature the size of a sheep that unlike smaller rodents stands on relatively straight legs. However, as Alexander explains in his Perspective, a new fossil find in Venezuela (Sánchez-Villagra et al.) reveals that the capybara would be dwarfed by Phoberomys, a giant rodent the size of a buffalo that lived during the Miocene Epoch.

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