Currently reading Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. In chapter 22 on page 306, writing about the prodigious expansion of mammals, he says “For a time, there were guinea pigs the size of rhinos and rhinos the size of a two-storey house.”
woah! Just imagine that!
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More giant guinea pigs info here: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4183
700 kg! Just imagine the size of the wheel you’d need for them to run around in…
I’m imagining… and I’m thinking of an anthology etitled Daikaiju Hamsters!
How big were the two-story houses?
ha!