BREAKING NEWS – Dili, East Timor – Julien Louys who is an archaeologists with the Australian National University, is seen holding the jaw bone of a giant rat species discovered on East Timor, up against a comparison with the same bone of a modern rat. “Just to put that in perspective, a large modern rat would be about half a kilo (2.2 pounds),” he said of the findings that were presented to the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas last month. “However”, he added “that even though these rats were the size of dogs, it would not have survived long if it was placed in Chicago when it was alive. Because if the smaller rats back then that were living in Chitown were similar to the people that current live there now, the giant rat would have gotten beaten up, robbed, and left for dead, as soon as it was detected that it was from out of town.”
