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  2. Castoroides - Wikipedia

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    Castoroides (Latin: "beaver" (castor), "like" (oides) [2]), or the giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Two species are currently recognized, C. dilophidus in the Southeastern United States and C. ohioensis in most of North America.

  3. North American beaver - Wikipedia

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    North American beaver skeleton (Museum of Osteology) Lithograph of a Canadian beaver, 1819. The beaver is the largest rodent in North America and competes with its Eurasian counterpart, the European beaver, for being the third-largest in the world, both following the South American capybara and lesser capybara. The European species is slightly ...

  4. List of largest rodents - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest rodents. Rank Common name Scientific name Status ... North American beaver: Castor canadensis: Extant: 50 kg (110 lb) 5: Lesser capybara:

  5. Although on dry land, the beaver covered the tape player with branches and mud. #44 TIL a film in 1997 with a budget of $15 million only made $309 because it only played in 2 movie theaters before ...

  6. Beaver - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the North American beaver was trapped and nearly extirpated because its fur was highly sought after. Protections have allowed the beaver population on the continent to rebound to an estimated 6–12 million by the late 20th century; still far lower than the originally estimated 60–400 million North American beavers before the ...

  7. Giant beaver - Wikipedia

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    Giant beaver may refer to: Castoroides, an extinct Pleistocene genus of beavers from North America; Trogontherium, an extinct Pleistocene genus of beavers from Eurasia

  8. 'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ...

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    A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists is the largest to ever be documented, USA TODAY previously reported, and now, there are images showing ...

  9. UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed - AOL

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    The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor. They ...