Fossil of 1,545-Pound Rodent Discovered

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:36 am

This article is pretty cool. I don't know about you guys, but when I saw it, I immediately thought of Fallout.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ant_rodent

Icabod · Post by **Icabod** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:39 am

The proportions are uncanny to the molerats.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 1:41 pm

The article mentions that everything what on a real large scale..

hmm.... wonder if there were vegetables of the same size-scale... mmm Tomatoes the size of basketballs... fruit... grapes the size of tennis balls. Yum!

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:28 pm

South america had all kinds of giant animals up to a few million years ago, since it was isolated from the rest of the world. Neat stuff. 'Course it's all gone now.

Ruben Rooben Reuben · Post by **Ruben Rooben Reuben** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:29 pm

They found the fossils of Michael Moore?

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:08 pm

Bahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:27 am

So Fallout isnt sci-fi, itÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â´s a prehistoric myth.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:31 am

Smiley wrote:mmm Tomatoes the size of basketballs... fruit... grapes the size of tennis balls. Yum!

Remember the giant vegetable patch in Sleeper? lol

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:32 am

Ruben Rooben Reuben wrote:They found the fossils of Michael Moore?

Hey, let's not make this all political k? You too Hammer.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:01 am

Taking plague spreading to a whole new level. Continent hop baby!

Tank · Post by **Tank** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:03 pm

Yeah- since it's south-american, it must be the giant plague... yuck, blisters the size of your head! ARGH!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Pretty interesting discovery.
Any of you heard about that song they some scientific research boat heard in the atlantic? They said it was some kind of organic sound, which could only come out of some HUGE animal. They are associating it to a giant squid, much like the renaissance's kraken legends.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:38 pm

The giant squid isn't a legend at all. We are finding giant squid carcasses washing up around the world all the time, and we also find whales swimming around with giant scars on them that could only have come from a fight with a giant squid.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:54 pm

South America still has the largest rodents. The capybara is about the size of a dog. They have them at the zoo here.

Rev · Post by **Rev** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:36 am

learn somthing new every day.

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:24 pm

Jimmyjay86 wrote:South America still has the largest rodents. The capybara is about the size of a dog. They have them at the zoo here.

Yeah, once a few years ago the capybaras escaped from their cage when I was there and one of them was looking at me crasy so I was about to do kung fu, but then zookeepers got them back in cage. :'(

bloodbathmaster2 · Post by **bloodbathmaster2** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:34 pm

it is Keeng rat! ALL HAIL!