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Photo: giant rats!

By EcoPhysioMichelle on Monday, July 26, 2010
ScienceDaily reports on an archeological excavation of  eight rat species weighing over a kilogram. One of the rat species weighed over SIX kilograms.


Above is one partially intact skull compared to the skull of a normal black rat. This isn't even the biggest skull they found. Dude.

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  1. worldin1450July 26, 2010 at 10:12 PM

    Looks at those incisors!!! They are as big as the brain case of the skull on the right....

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