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May 19, 2005

ROUT - Rodents of Unusual Taste?

It's always refreshing and amusing when you hear stories that reenforce how people were pragmatic long before they became analytical and scientific - and really, they still are.

So what happens when a bunch of brainy biologists go shopping in a third-world food market? They find that some people don't care about identifying and cataloging a species so much as feeding themselves.

Scientists who went shopping recently at an Asian food market got more than they bargained for—a rodent unknown to science was being sold as meat.

Discovered in Laos, Southeast Asia, the animal is described as an "oddball rodent" with long whiskers, stubby legs, and a furry tail.

More at: New Rodent Discovered at Asian Food Market

Posted by sorsha at May 19, 2005 2:43 PM