{"id":1722,"date":"2003-09-18T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2003-09-18T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T20:48:00","slug":"invasion-of-the-giant-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/09\/18\/16\/48\/invasion-of-the-giant-rodents\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the GIANT RODENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know Lisa will love this. Scientists have unearthed a 700 Kg fossilized rodent. That’s larger than many cows. It’s an ancestor of the guinea pig.<\/p>\n

The full magnitude of the world’s largest ever rodent has been revealed- the now-extinct monster was the size of a cow … “Imagine a weird guinea pig, but huge, with a long tail for balancing on its hind legs and continuously growing teeth”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>\"FUCKING<\/a>\"DAMN<\/a>
\nI guess it’s down to a competition between us apes and the rodents<\/a>, and the damn rodents are winning!<\/p>\n

The first rodents appeared about 40 to 50 million years ago … Rodents are now the most diverse group of mammals with more than 2,000 species; 40% of all mammalian species. “And they also have a huge size range – over ten orders of magnitude. But at a stroke this new fossil stretches this size range by more than another order of magnitude and reshapes our view of the evolution of these animals.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know Lisa will love this. Scientists have unearthed a 700 Kg fossilized rodent. That’s larger than many cows. It’s an ancestor of the guinea pig. The full magnitude of the world’s largest ever...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t