Giant rhino fossils in China show new species was ‘taller than giraffe’
The Paraceratherium linxiaense was taller than a giraffe and weighed as much as four large African elephants. …
A completely preserved skull and jawbone, for example, indicated that the animal had featured a slender skull, as well as a prehensile nose trunk similar to that of the modern tapir, according to the study led by Dr Deng Tao of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.
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