Bones discovered by scientists in China’s Gansu province in 2015 belong to a prehistoric ancestor of the rhinoceros. Scientists conclude that after research.
The giant animal, the Paraceratherium linxiaense, weighed 21 tons, weighed the weight of four adult elephants and could reach seven meters high to eat leaves from treetops. The giant rhinoceros was one of the largest land mammals and lived about 26.5 million years ago.
Chinese scientists say that this rhinoceros was closely related to giant rhinoceroses that lived in Pakistan in prehistoric times, but that it is a species whose existence was not yet known.
The newly discovered rhinoceros only ate plants. “It was a gentle giant,” said the research team leader.
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