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35-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth from Thailand Reveal Rodent as Heavy as Large Dog


When most people picture a giant rodent, they think of the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), or of the enormous extinct rodents that roamed South America within the last 10 million years.

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