If you think that rodents are typically tiny in size and that beavers are gigantic when compared to other members of the rodent family, then perhaps you haven’t yet met the largest rodent of them all ...

The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium and its visitors are mourning the loss of a "guest favorite" capybara. Ripple, a 12-year-old capybara who arrived to the zoo in 2017, had to be euthanized on Dec. 29.