Publication Date:
2003-09-23
Description:
The largest living rodent is the South American capybara, a creature the size of a sheep that unlike smaller rodents stands on relatively straight legs. However, as Alexander explains in his Perspective, a new fossil find in Venezuela (Sanchez-Villagra et al.) reveals that the capybara would be dwarfed by Phoberomys, a giant rodent the size of a buffalo that lived during the Miocene Epoch.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alexander, R McNeill -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Sep 19;301(5640):1678-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pure and Applied Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. r.m.alexander@leeds.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14500968" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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Body Constitution
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Body Weight
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Diet
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Energy Metabolism
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Femur/anatomy & histology
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Fermentation
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*Fossils
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Hindlimb/anatomy & histology
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Locomotion
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Rodentia/*anatomy & histology/metabolism
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Tooth/anatomy & histology
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Venezuela
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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