RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.
Scientists say they've identified the remains of the largest rodent ever recorded - a more than 2,000-pound beast the size of a bull. Its fossilized skull was found in Uruguay by an amateur paleontologist. It has huge incisors, possibly to fight off saber tooth cats. This new find takes the crown from what was the biggest rodent ever discovered. In Venezuela that fossil was dubbed Guinea-zilla.
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