Posted on 06/21/2021 8:02:55 AM PDT by deport
Fossils from two giant rhinos dating back about 22 million years have been unearthed in China, according to a study published Thursday.
They are among the latest relics of the gigantic animal, which was discovered amid great fanfare early last century. Much larger than modern rhinos, giant rhinos often stood more than 20 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed more than 20 tons, making them bigger than mammoths and the largest land mammal that ever lived.
One fossil consists of a skull, jawbone and teeth, and the atlas vertebra — where the head connects to the spine — while the other consists of three vertebrae. From these remains, the scientists have reconstructed the ancient animals. And they’ve discerned enough differences in their skeletons to classify them as a new species,
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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.
I take it that Paleontology was not your strongest subject at the university?
Regards,
Yeah, I took real science courses.
With the exception of our very own Sauropod, Sauropods are not mammals.
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how soon before someone makes a deadly soup from it?
Nothing there supporting your claim that sauropods were mammals.
Didn’t know a Sauropod was a mammal, I was always led to belive it was a reptile.
Sounds like the Baluchitherium that Roy Chapman Andrews found back in the 1930s.
Did Sauropods nurse their young from mammary glands? If so, you are correct. We may never know.
How fitting.
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?
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.
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).
Monotremes are mammals but lay eggs.
Were they found buried next to a giant stone wok? Asking for a friend...
Thank you, I’m all the wiser.
Probably the best-known monotreme is the duckbilled platypus. I once saw a children’s cartoon which featured one.
You want a giant RINO ? Check the office of the Junior Senator from Utah. . .
Mitch McConnel’s great ancestors.
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