chrisisasavage
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Giant rat (the size of a CAR) that once roamed the earth
| Quote From Source: | The fossilised skull of a rat the size of a car has been unearthed. The creature lived about four million years ago, weighed about a tonne and ate mostly soft vegetation. It was so big that it probably spent much of its life semi-submerged in water, like a hippo, to reduce the stresses caused by its size.
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I'd like to see the size of the cats that ate it......
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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The size of Semi-Trucks, I'd imagine. Either that or it ate the cats! |
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I don't think it's a big surprise, Mammals and animals in general have been decreasing in time over time. |
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started out way small, got huge, then shrank... makes ya wonder whats next ?
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Except humans. But thats because we eat everything in sight.
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hahaha, uneducated oaf  |
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chrisisasavage
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I'm not so sure we really have increased in size. Neanderthal may not have been as tall as us, but they were bigger overall. H. Erectus finds were taller and more stout than us. |
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I really got to try and avoid double quoting. |
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Related to Richard Erectus by any chance?
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or Richard Cranium ?
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I think we found Indy's direct ancestor. |
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Is that Cheney's middle name? |
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