Some interesting prose in today's NY Times:

Today paleontologists are reporting the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Phoberomys pattersoni, a distant relative of the guinea pig, that they can now confirm weighed about 1,500 pounds.

Phoberomys is thought to have grazed, with no violent intent, on grasses. In short, it was not an H. G. Wells rodent, like the enormous predatory rats that killed and carried off a horse in "The Food of the Gods." It was a C. S. Lewis rodent, like the large and friendly beavers of "The Chronicles of Narnia." South America was also home to a giant beaver, now extinct, but Lewis notwithstanding, there is no evidence that it was a talking beaver.

-Distinctly Big, if Extinct: The 1,500-Pound Rodent

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