The world’s largest rat

Posted on September 19, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

Meet Phoberomys pattersoni, a nine-foot-long, four-foot-tall rodent of yesteryear. If the artist’s rendition of what this sucker may have looked like doesn’t make you want to buy some bigger mousetraps, I don’t know what will. As an extra added bonus, there’s a bit at the end of the story about Diprotodon optatum, a “giant wombat-like creature that lived in Australia during the last ice age”. Aren’t you glad you live in the Holocene epoch?

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2 Responses to The world’s largest rat

  1. William Hughes says:
    September 19, 2003 at 9:28 am

    I thought the world’s largest rat was Dick Grasso. Arr, he be a worthy pirate, filling his treasure chest with pieces of eight.

  2. Steve Bates says:
    September 20, 2003 at 12:40 am

    At least William knows what holiday it is! (Oops, “was” … it’s past midnight.) I was coding a calendar date-picker popup for my client’s web site today, and included “Talk Like a Pirate Day” in my sample list of holidays.

    Avast, mateys! Avast? what’s that? Well, my dictionary says it means, like, cease-and-desist, but I’ve always heard it in the phrase, “avast right-wing conspiracy.” (Yo-ho-ho! Grin, duck, run!)

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