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Sep. 18th, 2003 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyScientists have unearthed the remains of guinea pigs the size of buffalo. They're thinking they might have roamed South America in huge herds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3120950.stm
They're thinking they were easy prey for the ten-foot-high flightless birds and marsupial lions that lived in the area. They leave it to the reader to imagine what 1,000 giant guinea pigs quorp!ing the alarm call sounded like.
Dinos, schminos. This is SO my favorite prehistoric era.
Anyone feel like writing a very strange Watership Down meets Clan of the Cave Bear story about life back then?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3120950.stm
They're thinking they were easy prey for the ten-foot-high flightless birds and marsupial lions that lived in the area. They leave it to the reader to imagine what 1,000 giant guinea pigs quorp!ing the alarm call sounded like.
Dinos, schminos. This is SO my favorite prehistoric era.
Anyone feel like writing a very strange Watership Down meets Clan of the Cave Bear story about life back then?
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Date: 2003-09-18 01:35 pm (UTC)Years ago, in high school and early college, I co-wrote a fantasy novel with my best friend. We decided one day, hyped on far too much sugar, that we wouldn't tolerate the boredom of mere horses in our universe. We installed giant, long-haired guinea pigs as our mounts of choice.
I am speechless with joy that they actually existed.
Now I must run a game in this area during that timeframe.