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Giant extinct rodent was all brawn and little brain
![Artistic reconstruction of N. Acreensis (by Márcio L. Castro).](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-020-00376-y/d41586-020-00376-y_17668316.jpg)
The now-extinct Neoepiblema acreensis (artist’s impression) is one of the largest rodents ever to have lived in South America, but its brain was minuscule for its size. Credit: J. D. Ferreira et al./Biol. Lett. (CC BY 4.0)
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Nature 578, 340 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00376-y