Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Picture of the Indiscriminate Interval #000004a - Not A Rodent


I'll try something new here - can anyone out there identify this skull? As the title hints, this is not a rodent...

7 comments:

tai haku said...

One of the fossil giant wombat type marsupials the name of which temporarily escapes me (he asks guessing wildly)?

Cameron McCormick said...

Nope, it's not a diprotodontid. Good guess though, the skulls look more similar than what I had remembered.

Anonymous said...

Thylacoleo, then?

Is it a new thing that blogger won't let you log onto your google account without forcing you to create a blog?

Chris

Cameron McCormick said...

Nope, not a marsupial.

I'd like to further add that this species became extinct very recently, hundreds of years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed.

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I haven't noticed any strange login issues, but then I do have a blog... I'm sure our Google Overlords wouldn't mind an inquiry.

Darren Naish said...

I'm too l-a-z-y to provide an answer. And I'm fat. So, I'm giant, and slothful.. that's what I'm getting at.

Cameron McCormick said...

Hey, 150 kg isn't that giant!

The now practically spoilered answer is forthcoming...

Marcos Jose Rodriguez said...

Megalocnus rodens