Check out the cool video(s) of the giant rat!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm
Huge, extremely bold creature in a typical island environment (crater of a volcano in New Guinea). Shouldn’t we make the same film on Rytilampi ninespines? Pity is that there is permanent light in summer, so we cannot get the night scenery. Combined with ice-fishing, probably.
“Huh, I had a goldfish at home, and it was the same size as this ninespine.”
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Here is another view to gigantism:
http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/08/they-might-be-giants-how-do.html
Even better than the rat case!
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Seemingly (as natural experiments are never perfect), we should sooner or later do artificial colonizations of different types of ponds and leave the fish there for 20 years. Thinking of that, sooner might be better.
Another super-sized mammal – now from St Kilda:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11168757