New fossils of giant rhinos — the largest land mammals ever — are found in China

NBC News ^ | June 18, 2021 | Tom Metcalfe

[Kevmo]

People aren’t going to stop going to Africa just because the Rhinos no longer have horns nor the elephants have their tusks cut off.

Heck, at the current price they could sew back on fake tusks that the poachers would instantly recognize as plastic.

[alexander_busek]

Sauropods were the largest land mammal.

I take it that Paleontology was not your strongest subject at the university?

Regards,

[ConservativeInPA]

Yeah, I took real science courses.

[null and void]

Consider the source of this article: Comcrap. Sauropods were the largest land mammal. This giant RINO isn’t even close.

With the exception of our very own Sauropod, Sauropods are not mammals.

[a fool in paradise]

ping

[a fool in paradise]

how soon before someone makes a deadly soup from it?

[TexasGator]

Nothing there supporting your claim that sauropods were mammals.

[eastforker]

Didn’t know a Sauropod was a mammal, I was always led to belive it was a reptile.

[JimRed]

Sounds like the Baluchitherium that Roy Chapman Andrews found back in the 1930s.

[JimRed]

Sauropods were the largest land mammal. This giant RINO isn’t even close.

Did Sauropods nurse their young from mammary glands? If so, you are correct. We may never know.

[mewzilla]

How fitting.

[Captain Rhino]

The actual shooting is most probably black on black; so this type of killing is considered not “newsworthy” to MSM.

Returning to the ancient rhino that is the subject of the article, I live in a modest two story home. The distance from the front entrance porch floor to the bottom of the entrance’s flat overhanging roof is 12 feet. Twenty feet at the shoulder is the tip of my outstretched fingers with me standing on top of that roof and my arms fully raised above my head!

How did such an animal move? How much did it have to eat on a daily basis to support such a body? What kind of environment produced such quantities of food? What kind of circulatory system was required to get its blood out to its furthest distance and back? What kind of blood pressure?

[immadashell]

Did Sauropods nurse their young from mammary glands?

And I was taught mammals had hair and were live birthed (not from eggs). But then again I learned this 65 years ago and things may have changed.

[Verginius Rufus]

I just read an essay by Stephen Jay Gould where he argues that maybe dinosaurs should not be classed with the reptiles but that dinosaurs and birds may constitute a separate family (Dinosauria). I don’t know if anyone has followed him (he died in 2002).

[Verginius Rufus]

Monotremes are mammals but lay eggs.

[USAF1985]

Were they found buried next to a giant stone wok? Asking for a friend...

[immadashell]

Thank you, I’m all the wiser.

[Verginius Rufus]

Probably the best-known monotreme is the duckbilled platypus. I once saw a children’s cartoon which featured one.

[Salgak]

You want a giant RINO ? Check the office of the Junior Senator from Utah. . .

[NWFree]

Mitch McConnel’s great ancestors.