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IN THE NEWS
Today's Headlines � September 19, 2003
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FOSSILS OF BUFFALO-SIZED RODENT FOUND from The San Francisco Chronicle
Eight million years ago, a giant relative of today's pet guinea pigs wallowed in the coastal marshes and lagoons of northwestern Venezuela -- a buffalo-size beast that scientists say is by far the biggest rodent that ever lived.
Now, the fossil remains of two of the mysterious creatures have been unearthed from what has become a dry and scrubby semidesert, and the discovery is fascinating scientists who puzzle over the evolutionary lineage of animals that were once so big and are now mostly so small.
The scientific name of the long-vanished rodent is Phoberomys pattersoni, but the scientists who found it call it Goya. A detailed report on the size and bone structure of the ancient beast is appearing today in the journal Science by an international team of paleontologists. http://snurl.com/2eaf
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