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Baluchitherium
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Baluchitherium

Extinct giant hornless Oligocene rhinoceros, probably the largest known land mammal. Its limbs were long and massive, the skull about 1.4 m/4.6 ft in length, and it stood about 5.5 m/18 ft high at the shoulders.



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As visitors enter the exhibition, they come face-to-face, or face-to-giant feet, with the largest mammal ever to walk the Earth — the dinosaur-sized African elephant Indricotherium that weighed 20 tons and lived more than 23 million years ago.
Indricotherium, the largest land mammal that ever lived, weighed as much as five elephants and was able to nibble leaves three stories aboveground.
The illustrations are very lifelike (perhaps too lifelike for those sensitive to certain eating and fighting habits) and explain how such massive beasts as the indricotherium related to their environment and each other while making sure the less well-known lifeforms also get the appropriate amount of face time.
 
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