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Re: Okay, so it's not a dinosaur... but it is big and extinct!
At 11:12 PM 19/09/03 +0000, Garrison Hilliard wrote:
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030920/fob1.asp
I find it interesting (and mentioned the fact in my book on turtles) that
Phoberomys, the buffalo-sized rodent, shared the Venezuelan marshes with
Stupendemys, probably the world's largest turtle. It must have been quite
a fascinating ecosystem!
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