Caribbean super-rat history

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The so-called rice rats of the Caribbean, some of which grew to the size of cats, have been the subject of a scientific DNA investigation. Now extinct, researchers regard what happened in the Caribbean as one of the largest mammal extinction events in the past few thousand years.

Caribbean super-rat history extracted from DNA - BBC News here ...

Scientists piece together the history of a group of extinct Caribbean rats, some of which grew to the size of cats.

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