Gigantic fossil rodent discovered


	Gigantic fossil rodent discovered

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>The fossilised skull of the largest rodent ever recorded has been described by scientists for the first time.</B>
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<FONT size="2">The remains of the one-tonne beast, found in Uruguay, indicate that it would have been as big as a bull.
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<FONT size="2">It is thought that the three-metre-long herbivore would have roamed estuaries and forests 2-4 million years ago. 
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<FONT size="2">The mammal, which is more than 15 times heavier than the largest living rodent, is described in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3BA828F1-9052-4D39-AD94-F51B6A52BB17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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