{"id":871,"date":"2008-01-16T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/rodent-of-unusual-size\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:30:59","slug":"rodent-of-unusual-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/rodent-of-unusual-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodent of Unusual Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Artist&#8217;s Rendering of ROUS<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/capt.sge.tgg46.160108001002.photo00.photo.default-392x512.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's Rendering of ROUS\" \/><br \/><small>Image Credit: AFP\/GUSTAVO LECUONA<\/small><\/center><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080116\/sc_afp\/sciencepalaeontologyrodent\" target=\"_blank\" >Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPARIS (AFP) &#8211; Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived &#8212; a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-identified species is the greatest-known member of the order Rodentia and by comparison makes the biggest rodent alive today, the 60-kilo (132-pound) capybara, look like a pygmy shrew.<\/p>\n<p>The skull of the extraordinary beast was found in a broken boulder on Kiyu Beach on the coast of Uruguay&#8217;s River Plate region, palaeontologists reported in a study on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring a whopping 53 centimetres (21 inches), the skull has massive incisors several centimetres long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080116\/sc_afp\/sciencepalaeontologyrodent\" target=\"_blank\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess the Princess Bride wasn&#8217;t all fairy tales! Of course, the largest rodent of unusual size roaming the planet currently is the Capybara &#8211; I wonder what it is about the South American rainforest&#8230;.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/capybara.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara, living rodent of unusual size\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Rendering of ROUSImage Credit: AFP\/GUSTAVO LECUONA Via Yahoo News: PARIS (AFP) &#8211; Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived &#8212; a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago. The newly-identified species is the greatest-known member of the order Rodentia and by comparison makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}