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Patricia Cabrera Rats, by and large, aren t terribly popular animals. But while you don t want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are downright cuddly. These giant cloud rats live in the treetops of misty mountain forests, and they fill an ecological role occupied by squirrels in the US. And, it turns out, we have new evidence that they ve been living in the Philippines for a long time scientists have discovered the fossils of three new species of giant cloud rats that lived alongside ancient humans. Our previous studies have demonstrated that the Philippines has the greatest concentration of unique species of mammals of any country, most of which are small animals, less than half a pound, that live in the tropical forest, Larry Heaney, the Neguanee Curator of Mammals at Chicago s Field Museum and an author of a study in the

University of the philippinesQuezon cityCagayan provincePena blancaPhilip piperLauren nassefVelizar simeonovskiJanine ochoaMarian reyesPatricia cabreraLarry heaneyArmand mijaresAustralian national universityNational museum of the philippinesArchaeological studies programField museum