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The rodent the size of a grizzly bear

We normally think of rodents as being small animals, but what if I told you they used to get huge? Join me as we explore the giant extinct rodents of South America, and talk about how they might have evolved to such gigantic size. __________________________________________________________________________ REFERENCES __________________________________________________________________________ Rinderknecht & Blanco (2008). The largest fossil rodent. Proc.Biol.Sci., 15: 923-928. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1645 Antoine et al. (2011). Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography. Proc.R.Soc.B, 279: 1319-1326. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1732 Wilson et al. (2016). Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Vol. 6. Lagomorphs and Rodents 1. Barcelona: Lynx Editions Chávez Hoffmeister, M.F. (2020). From Gondwana to the Great American Biotic Interchange: The Birth of South American Fauna. In: Pino , M., Astorga, G. (eds) Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site. The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-239... Engelman (2022). Revising the largest known extinct rodents (Caviomorpha: Dinomyidae, Neoepiblemidae) using occipital condyle width. R.Soc.Open Sci., 9(6): 220370. doi: 10.1098/rsos.220370 US Fish & Wildlife Service, https://www.fws.gov/species/grizzly-b..., [Accessed:02/06/2025] __________________________________________________________________________ IMAGE CREDITS __________________________________________________________________________ Silhouettes from phylopic.org. Under https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... Ursus arctos by xgiroux Hydrochoerus by Skye McDavid Cavia porcellus by Mozillian Homo sapiens by T. Micheal Keesey Under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Dinomys branickii by Juan Camilo Cepeda Duque Glyptodont from Public Domain [Wikimedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...] Giant ground sloth by Benji Pascoe [from https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/gian...] Terror bird by Jon Kuo [from https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/202...] Great American Biotic Interchange graphic: Figure 2.4 in Chávez Hoffmeister, M.F. (2020). From Gondwana to the Great American Biotic Interchange: The Birth of South American Fauna. In: Pino , M., Astorga, G. (eds) Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site. The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-239... Gondwana graphic: Cisterna et al. (2019). Brachiopod assemblages of the Eurydesma Fauna in glacial-deglacial sequences from Argentina and australia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 125(3): 805-826. DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/12249 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... __________________________________________________________________________ TIMESTAMPS __________________________________________________________________________ 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - The rodents of South America 2:48 - Fossil giants 5:36 - How did they get this big? 8:35 - Outro #biology #science #evolution #paleontology #capybara #giant #bear #rodents #explained #southamerica #extinction #fossil