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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Fri - September 19, 2003
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
Yet Venezuelan scientists have identified bones of an extinct rodent that size which lived west of present-day Caracas about eight million years ago. The animal is thought to have been semi-aquatic and to have dined on sea grasses growing in its wetland habitat.
"This fossil fauna from Urumaco in north-western Venezuela opens a new chapter in the history of biodiversity for that region," an editor of Science said.
South America has long fascinated paleontologists because species there developed in isolation until the Panamanian isthmus emerged three million years ago. Besides the giant rodent, the continent once spawned giant crocodiles, saber-tooth cats, carnivorous birds nine feet tall, and turtles that weighed several tons.
Something tells me that the local tourist industry is better off for their extinction.