Evolution. Enhanced: A rodent as big as a buffalo.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Biological Evolution
- Fossils
- Rodentia