Dwelling on the reasons of the Gujarat Chief Minister's act, Sombhai said a young Modi did it in response to an inner call to work for the nation and the society inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekanand.
Giant Rodent Fossil Found In Uruguay. In this image released in London Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008 by the Royal Society, an artist's illustration shows variations on the head of Josephoartigasia monesi, a newly discovered extinct species of rodent. Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that scurried across wooded areas of South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was not connected to North America.
The dire wolf (Canis dirus, fearsome dog) is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis, roughly the size of the extant gray wolf, but with a heavier build.It evolved in North America and later moved into South America.alamander Cave in the Black Hills of South Dakota has produced the oldest known fossil of what is thought to be a dire wolf. The site preserves a fauna approximately 252,000 years old, based on uranium-series dating of a horse fossil found there.