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Mesoprocta hypsodus reconstruction

Caption: This is a reconstruction of Mesoprocta hypsodus, an extinct, 13-million-year-old Bolivian relative of the new dasyproctid rodent Andemys termasi from Chile.

Credit: V. Simeonovski & D.A. Croft

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