ROUS’s? I don’t believe they exist. 15 Jan 2008 Anyone who knows the film The Princess Bride knows what happens next. Westley gets hit hard by a rodent about the size of a pitbull. However, it seems that ROUS’s (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually may have existed, in Uruguay. Nature reports that the skull of one has been discovered, and the animal itself may have weighed a tonne (2200lbs) or so. Next, we’ll discover that there are miracle men… Evolution General Science
Academe Attack of the Unlibrarian 15 Dec 201115 Dec 2011 I am generally fairly IT savvy (I even have an ancient IT degree), but at the same time I am rather unconvinced that the future is as digital as everyone says. In particular I have been appalled at the constant destruction of physical books by university libraries. Now I am… Read More
Administrative Empirical Perspectives 8 May 20128 May 2012 Jim Goetz, frequent commenter here, has started up what looks to be a physics and science blog at Empirical Perspectives. Go visit and make rude comments. Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Teacher, there’s a god in my evolutionary soup… 12 Dec 200818 Sep 2017 … shh, not so loud or everyone will want one. Here’s a piece by Darksyde at Daily Kos in which he reports the outgoing EPA chair (who has overseen all manner of bad science and decisions, although that may not be his own fault) as saying “It’s not a clean-cut… Read More
Yabbut the “standard” example of Diprotodon is a wombat, which is about the size of an small esky, so a Volkswagen sized esky isn’t such a leap. But a Volkswagen sized rat is a whole nother thing.
The new critter is called Josephoartigasia monesi (which isn’t as bad as Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis for a name) and the paper describing it is up over at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
Wait, I know something you don’t know… or rather, the article says something you didn’t read. They’re comparing it to a capybara, rather than a rat. Which is rather like the wombat/diprodoton comparison. Although everything is obviously bigger and better in SE Queensland, if John has an Esky the size of a wombat.
Wait, I know something you don’t know… or rather, the article says something you didn’t read. They’re comparing it to a capybara, rather than a rat. Which is rather like the wombat/diprodoton comparison. Although everything is obviously bigger and better in SE Queensland, if John has an Esky the size of a wombat.
Shhh… you’re ruining the moment 🙂 Do you mean to say, Dr. Wilkins, that you played fast and loose with the truth to make your argument seem stronger? I’m shocked! I thought philosophers (excepting christian philosophers) were honor bound to tell the truth without fudging. 😉