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	Phoberomys pattersoni - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Phoberomys pattersoni is an extinct rodent that lived in the Orinoco River delta approximately 8 million years BP.
		An almost complete skeleton of Phoberomys, discovered in Venezuela in 2000, has enabled researchers to reconstruct its size and probable lifestyle.
		It was 3 m long, with an additional 1.5 m tail, and probably weighed around 700 kilograms, making it the largest known rodent.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Phoberomys (92 words)

	Meet mega rodent - www.smh.com.au
		Phoberomys pattersoni is being described as the largest rodent that ever lived.
		Phoberomys pattersoni lived during a time when South America was isolated from the rest of the world.
		Sanchez-Villagra said the closest living relative to Phoberomys pattersoni is probably the pacarana, a slow-moving rodent that can grow to 15 kilograms and lives in the tropical forest of the western Amazon River basin.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/09/19/1063625183129.html (771 words)

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	AAAS - AAAS News Release
		An artist's rendering of Phoberomys pattersoni, a giant rodent roughly the size of a buffalo that roamed the banks of an ancient Venezuelan river some 8 million years ago.
		The cause of the demise of Phoberomys remains a mystery.
		Dubbed "Goya," the 90-percent-complete fossil of Phoberomys pattersoni was trapped within sedimentary layers of brown shales and coal, within the Urumaco Formation.
	www.aaas.org /news/releases/2003/0918rodent.shtml (850 words)

	Distinctly Big, if Extinct: The 1,500-Pound Rodent
		But today paleontologists are reporting the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Phoberomys pattersoni, a distant relative of the guinea pig, that they can now confirm weighed about 1,500 pounds.
		The Phoberomys fossils were excavated in arid land near Urumaco, a town about 250 miles west of Caracas, by a team of paleontologists, including Dr. Orangel Aguilera, of the Francisco de Miranda National Experimental University in Venezuela.
		Phoberomys is thought to have grazed, with no violent intent, on grasses.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/bigrodentbk01.htm (611 words)

	Goya, Binatang Pengerat Sebesar Kerbau - 23/09/2003, 15:41 WIB - KOMPAS Cyber Media - Sains & Teknologi
		Phoberomys pattersoni, demikian nama binatang itu, bisa mencapai berat 700 kilogram, atau jauh lebih besar dari binatang pengerat terbesar saat ini, yakni capybara, yang bobotnya sekitar 50 kilogram.
		Phoberomys pattersoni hidup pada saat Amerika Selatan masih terpisah dari bagian dunia lain.
		Disebut juga sebagai Goya, fosil Phoberomys pattersoni yang nyaris komplit itu terperangkap dalam lapisan tanah cokelat dan batu bara, dalam lempeng Urumaco.
	www.kompas.com /teknologi/news/0309/23/153428.htm (754 words)

	Worldandnation: Scientists find fossil of largest rodent
		The largest rodent that ever lived, Phoberomys pattersoni, seen in this artist rendering, was roughly the size of a buffalo, and roamed the banks of an ancient Venezuelan river some 8 million years ago dining on sea grass and dodging crocodiles.
		Researchers have recently found in Venezuela the most complete skelton to date of this giant rodent, which is an evolutionary sibling to modern-dayguinea pigs.
		Alexander said most rodents are small enough to hide in the ground when threatened, but Phoberomys pattersoni was too large to burrow.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/09/19/Worldandnation/Scientists_find_fossi.shtml (897 words)

	Buffalo-sized guinea pig revealed - 18 September 2003 - New Scientist
		Phoberomys pattersoni would have lived a semi-aquatic life, munching sea grass and dodging other strange, gargantuan creatures such as three-metre-long crocodiles, lion-sized marsupial cats and huge, flightless carnivorous birds, according to Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra, of the University of Tübingen, Germany, who led the new study.
		Sánchez-Villagra and his team were able to build up a picture of the giant rodent, after finding an "exceptionally complete" skeleton in the Urumaco formation in Venezuela.
		Phoberomys had previously been identified from only isolated teeth and bone fragments, so no one had realised how immense it was.
	www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99994183 (574 words)

	Rodent Totally Explained
		On the other hand, the capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds) and the extinct Phoberomys pattersoni is believed to have weighed 700 kg.
		Rodents have two incisors in the upper as well as in the lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept worn down by gnawing; this is the origin of the name, from the Latin rodere, to gnaw, and dens, dentis, tooth.
		Phoberomys pattersoni, the largest known rodent » Telicomys, a giant South American rodent
	rodent.totallyexplained.com (1187 words)

	Wildlife News: Guinea-zilla? World's largest rodent identified as ancient sibling to guinea pigs
		The largest rodent that ever lived, Phoberomys pattersoni, weighed about 1,545 pounds (700 kilograms) - more than 10 times the size of today's rodent heavyweight, the 110-pound (50 kilograms) capybara.
		Scientists had speculated that it might be related to various other rodents -- either chinchillas, viscachas or pakaranas.
		By examining the Goya fossil, together with a second specimen offering more complete skull evidence, the authors were able to identify Phoberomys pattersoni as a sibling to the pakarana Dinomys -- a close relative of the guinea pig (Cavia porcella).
	www.wildlifenews.co.uk /articles2003/september/september2003h.htm (838 words)

	World's Largest Rodent: Buffalo-Size Fossil Discovered
		Heralded as the world's largest rodent, Phoberomys pattersoni looked more like a giant guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) than an oversized house rat (Rattus rattus) and it apparently flourished on a diet of vegetation, not scraps dropped on the kitchen floor.
		"Phoberomys was most likely a herbivore, and I seriously doubt it was a pest," said Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra, a paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
		Orangel Aguilera, a zoologist with the Universidad Francisco de Miranda in Venezuela, together with a colleague, discovered the Phoberomys fossils in 1999 in the Urumaco Formation, a desert region near the northwest coast of Venezuela.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/09/0922_030922_giantrodent.html (787 words)

	NPR : 'A Guinea Pig the Size of a Horse'
		An artist's reconstruction of Phoberomys pattersoni, a 7-foot-tall rodent that lived 8 million years ago.
		The giant rodent's closest relatives are the South American capybara and the pacarana, whose Latin name means "terrible mouse."
		Phoberomys pattersoni, possibly eight to 10 feet long, lived about 8 million years ago in Northern Venezuela.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1435280 (361 words)

	Giant Extinct Rodent Was Guinea Pig Relative: Scientific American
		That's the picture scientists are painting of Phoberomys pattersoni, judged to be the world's largest extinct rodent based on newly classified fossils.
		The ancient creature, described in a report published today in the journal Science, lived eight million years ago and is an extinct cousin of today's guinea pig.
		pattersoni's girth would most likely have made burrowing--the common escape route for rodents--difficult, he notes, and perhaps large rodents were too slow to outrun their predators.
	www.sciam.com /article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000EDB52-1E0F-1F6A-905980A84189EEDF (555 words)

	Latinoamerica-Paleontologia
		Se trata del "Phoberomys pattersoni", un roedor gigante que habitaba hace unos 8 millones de años en la orilla de un antiguo río de Venezuela y cuyos fósiles fueron hallados por un investigador argentino y uno venezolano.
		Estudios posteriores, sin embargo, determinaron que se trataba de un antepasado prehistórico del pacarana, un roedor que habita en Venezuela, Colombia y Bolivia y es un pariente cercano del Conejillo de Indias.
		Del estudio de los huesos surge que las patas y muslos traseros del "Phoberomys pattersoni" eran mucho más grandes y fuertes que sus extremidades delanteras.
	www.latinoamerica-online.it /temi2/paleo2.html (4448 words)

	Phoberomys pattersoni
		Phoberomys pattersoni, a 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) rodent the size of a buffalo, roamed South America eight million years ago.
		Researchers say Phoberomys looked more like a giant guinea pig than an oversized house rat.
		Like the buffalo and many dinosaurs, it flourished on a diet of vegetation.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/09/photogalleries/giantrodent (87 words)

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