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A Geologist Thought She’d Found a Bone. It Was a Tooth From a Prehistoric Rodent of Unusual Size


Researchers in Thailand identified a newly discovered species of prehistoric rodent after pulling one fossilized incisor, and later a giant molar, from a local mine in Krabi.

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