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Chinese super-rat roamed Earth 160 million years ago
Phys.Org ^ | 08-15-2013 | Staff

Posted on 08/20/2013 2:27:01 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Anything that can’t fill a Subway footlong bun doesn’t deserve to be called “super”.


21 posted on 08/20/2013 3:23:51 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Red Badger
It isn't extinct yet...


22 posted on 08/20/2013 3:37:00 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Bill Russell

I caught one bigger than that in my garage. It was 15” from nose to tip of tail and I have the pictures to prove it.


23 posted on 08/20/2013 3:46:39 PM PDT by Ditter
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It is about 17 cm (6.5 inches) long from head to rump, and is estimated to have weighed 80 grams (about 2.8 ounces).

That's a "super rat"? It must have had a cape and an alter ego.

24 posted on 08/20/2013 3:58:47 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Dallas59

HaHaHaHaHa! bttt


25 posted on 08/20/2013 5:09:38 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Red Badger; svcw; molson209; ColdOne; Sirius Lee; Hardraade; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; ...
That's odd... it says online that James Carville is only 68, and was born in Louisiana.


26 posted on 08/20/2013 5:29:22 PM PDT by Rodamala
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Ok, I laughed........smack me


27 posted on 08/20/2013 5:31:11 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: Red Badger

I knew a sorority girl with sharp teeth and flexible ankles, and she was a nocturnal mammal.
She was very active at night, but I don’t think she was technically a rodent or rat.


28 posted on 08/20/2013 5:53:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: colorado tanker; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

Thanks colorado tanker for the ping, and Red Badger for the topic.

29 posted on 08/20/2013 6:15:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Red Badger

Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist...


30 posted on 08/20/2013 6:18:22 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: SunkenCiv

They should study the Chicago Super-Rat.


31 posted on 08/20/2013 7:33:30 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Uber-Rat, he’s not all that super. :’)


32 posted on 08/20/2013 8:46:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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"A fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats—an agile creature that could climb, burrow and eat just about anything—has been unearthed in China, scientists said Thursday.”

They're still around, but they look a little different.


33 posted on 08/21/2013 12:50:12 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: null and void

... only in the Fire Swamp, my FRiend.


34 posted on 08/21/2013 11:44:42 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (What happens over the rainbow stays over the rainbow)
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