Rats the size of mini dachshunds:
Though a bear-size rat hasn’t yet materialized in archeology, fossils from the largest rat ever were recently discovered by researchers from the Australian National University (ANU). About the size of a miniature dachsund, it used to live alongside humans on the Southeast Asian island nation of East Timor thousands of years ago, they said.
ANU scientists are now trying to determine why the rats vanished about a thousand years ago. They suspect humans, which seem to have first moved through the Southeast Asian islands 46,000 years ago, had something to do with it.
Probably climate change.
Extinct, indeed. I could take you to parts of Chicago where I’m rather certain we could find rats that size tonight.
They suspect humans….
Go Team Hominid!