Wikipedia article of the day for July 15, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for July 15, 2019 is Noronhomys. Noronhomys vespuccii, Vespucci’s rodent, was a rat from the islands of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil. Numerous but fragmentary fossil remains of the extinct species, of uncertain but probably Holocene age, were discovered in 1973 and described in 1999. N. vespuccii was …

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