Scientists discover new oddball rodent

[Lavie Enrose]

NEW YORK - A team of scientists working in Southeast Asia has discovered a new mammal resembling a rat, but in a rare move they had to create a new scientific family to categorize it.

Scientists found a long-whiskered rodent with stubby legs and a tail covered in dense hair, commonly known as the Laotian rock rat, or "kha-nyou" to locals.

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Too bad Skydaddy was too lazy to enumerate in the bible all the "kinds" on Noah's ark, or we would have known about this thing all along.