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An adult Paraceratherium compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros.

An adult Paraceratherium (AKA Indricotherium and Baluchitherium) from 30 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Paraceratherium is 18 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 40,000 pounds*, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.. . Paraceratherium is the largest mammal known to have walked the Earth and are from an extinct family of hornless rhinoceroses that ranged across North America, Europe, and Asia from 60 to 20 million years ago.. . * Values are estimates only based upon available paleontological data.

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An adult Paraceratherium compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros.

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An adult Paraceratherium (AKA Indricotherium and Baluchitherium) from 30 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Paraceratherium is 18 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 40,000 pounds*, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.. . Paraceratherium is the largest mammal known to have walked the Earth and are from an extinct family of hornless rhinoceroses that ranged across North America, Europe, and Asia from 60 to 20 million years ago.. . * Values are estimates only based upon available paleontological data.

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Album / Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images

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41.0 x 30.7 cm | 16.1 x 12.1 in (300 dpi)

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ANIMAL THEMES • ANIMAL • ARTWORK • BALUCHITHERIUM • BEAST • CENOZOIC ERA • CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM • COLOR IMAGE • COLOUR IMAGE • COMPARISON • CREATURE • CRETACEOUS • CUTOUT • DAY • DIGITALLY GENERATED IMAGE • DINOSAUR • DINOSAURS • EARTH • EVOLUTION • EXTINCT • FRONT VIEW • GIGANTIC • HERBIVORE • HOOFED MAMMALS • HORIZONTAL • HORNED • HYRACODONTIDAE • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • INDRICOTHERIUM • JURASSIC • LARGE • MAMMAL • MEGAFAUNA • MESOZOIC ERA • NATURAL HISTORY • NATURAL SCIENCES • NATURE STUDY • NEOZOIC ERA • NO PEOPLE • ODD-TOED UNGULATES • OLIGOCENE • OUTDOOR • OUTDOORS • OUTSIDE • PALAEONTOLOGY • PALAEOZOOLOGY • PALEOGENE • PALEONTOLOGY • PALEOZOOLOGY • PARACERATHERIUM • PAST • PERISSODACTYLA • PREHISTORIC ERA • PRIMITIVE • PRIMORDIAL • QUADRUPED • QUATERNARY • RHINOCEROS • RUPELIAN • SCALE • SCIENCE • SCIENCE: EVOLUTION • SIDE BY SIDE • SPECIES • TERTIARY • TOUGHNESS • TWO ANIMALS • VERTEBRATE • WHITE BACKGROUND • WHITE RHINOCEROS • WILDLIFE • WITHOUT PEOPLE • ZOOLOGY