It is an amazing discovery and it's the coelacanth of rodents. It's the first time in the study of mammals that scientists have found a living fossil of a group that's thought to be extinct for roughly 11 million years. That's quite a gap. Previous mammals had a gap of only a few thousand to just over a million years.

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Every day, people would come up to his house and request medical help or ask for clothes or money.

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It looks like possibly one of the things that's been changing in family is improved cutting of vegetation. But over 11 million years you'd expect some differences in the structures.

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Biologists need to get out there and find some living ones.

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I'm just overwhelmed. I can't imagine how our country got in the situation, how we ever got here. We've got to get out.

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