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New fossils of giant rhinos — the largest land mammals ever — are found in China
NBC News ^ | June 18, 2021 | Tom Metcalfe

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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TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: china; fossils; godsgravesglyphs; johnmccain; mccain; meghanmccain; paleontology; rhinos
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To: Gay State Conservative

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.


21 posted on 06/21/2021 8:55:17 AM PDT by Kevmo (some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. ~Jonathan Karl)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Sauropods were the largest land mammal.

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

Regards,

22 posted on 06/21/2021 8:58:05 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Yeah, I took real science courses.


23 posted on 06/21/2021 8:59:14 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA; sauropod
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.

24 posted on 06/21/2021 9:06:19 AM PDT by null and void ( I doubt that "voters" have any real influence over the process. We already know who counts the vote)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


25 posted on 06/21/2021 9:06:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: escapefromboston

how soon before someone makes a deadly soup from it?


26 posted on 06/21/2021 9:06:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Nothing there supporting your claim that sauropods were mammals.


27 posted on 06/21/2021 9:09:06 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: ConservativeInPA

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


28 posted on 06/21/2021 9:09:51 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: deport

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


29 posted on 06/21/2021 9:11:42 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
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.

30 posted on 06/21/2021 9:14:08 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: deport

How fitting.


31 posted on 06/21/2021 9:15:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: dsrtsage

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?


32 posted on 06/21/2021 9:52:40 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: JimRed
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.

33 posted on 06/21/2021 10:18:16 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: eastforker

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).


34 posted on 06/21/2021 10:20:20 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: immadashell

Monotremes are mammals but lay eggs.


35 posted on 06/21/2021 10:21:07 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: deport

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


36 posted on 06/21/2021 10:25:54 AM PDT by USAF1985 (An armed population is a polite population...)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thank you, I’m all the wiser.


37 posted on 06/21/2021 10:28:09 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: immadashell

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


38 posted on 06/21/2021 10:36:08 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: deport

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


39 posted on 06/21/2021 10:39:07 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: deport

Mitch McConnel’s great ancestors.


40 posted on 06/21/2021 10:56:18 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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