consisting of a single species, E. polius. Discovered in 1912 and first
described in 1913 by Wilfred Osgood, it was originally named Oryzomys
polius. In 2006, a cladistic analysis found that it was not closely
related to Oryzomys or to any other known member of its tribe,
Oryzomyini. The Brazilian genus Drymoreomys, named in 2011, is probably
its closest relative. Eremoryzomys has a limited distribution in the dry
upper valley of the Marañón River in central Peru. A large, long-
tailed rice rat, with a head and body length of 138 to 164 mm (5.4 to
6.5 in), it has gray fur, short ears, and well-developed ungual tufts
of hair on the hindfeet. Females have eight mammae. The rostrum (front
part of the skull) is long and robust and the braincase is rounded. The
bony palate is relatively short. The International Union for
Conservation of Nature has found insufficient data to assess the
conservation status; the species may be threatened by destruction of its
habitat for cattle farming.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremoryzomys>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
2333 BC:
According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of
heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangun>
1918:
World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied
Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris
III (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria>
1951:
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson
hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant after
being down 14 games.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)>
1986:
After Soviet nuclear submarine K-219 had suffered an explosion
and fire, sailor Sergei Preminin manually prevented an impending nuclear
meltdown by means of a reactor SCRAM.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219>
2013:
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the
Italian island of Lampedusa, with a second boat sinking eight days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scuffle:
1. (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
2. (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
3. (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to
struggle financially.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scuffle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our
only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain
of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric
circles widen across the seas.
--Thomas Wolfe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolfe>
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