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A Living Fossil Sold to the Market: It Was Thought that the Kha-Nyou Had Disappeared for 11 Million Years, This Rodent Has Reappeared Completely by Chance
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In 1996 Robert Timmins, biologist of the Wildlife Conservation Society, wanders through the Thakhek market in Khammouan province south of Laos. Among the animals offered for sale as meat, he finds something he does not recognize. A small, tufted-tailed rodent that vaguely resembles a cross between a rat and a squirrel. No scientist has ever described it. A rodent so strange that scientists create a new family for him In 2005 Paulina Jenkins and …
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