Mice Largest Ever Discovered Life on Earth

  If you hear the word rat, surely we had imagined creature disgusting rodents and living in a dirty environment. And in fact this is so, because the creatures are often the pest rodents to humans.
Not just those who live in the countryside, where the rats could damage the plants. In the big cities too, the mice often become carriers of the plague. Especially during floods, rat urine often become carriers of the disease Leptospirosis.
But if you see the size of the current rat, tend to be smaller.

But in some countries, the mice are now beginning to grow larger again, as in the UK. Many rats weighing about one kilogram was found. But, how big the actual size of the rats?
Apparently, a few thousand years ago, precisely in East Timor, Southeast Asia, the rat never the same size as domestic cats. When they live, can weigh up to 6 kilograms, of those who see it will be terrified with rats the size of it.
Rat skeletal remains were found in a cave, along with 13 other type frame, and 11 of which are new discoveries in Science.
Imagine, with the average house mice that reached 150 milligrams, of course you would imagine a rat monster. In a test of the carbon skeleton of the monster mice derived from 1,000-2,000 years ago.
"People who live on the island of Timor for over 40,000 years of hunting and eating rats during this period, but its extinction occurred recently," said researcher Ken Aplin of CSIRO.
Although the majority of Timor today is arid, but the first place was once covered by lush rainforest. And it is an excellent habitat for species of mice grew to an enormous size.

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