Indricotherium

Indricotherium

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 * Indricotherium are rhino-like creatures!
 * They lived in the middle Oligocene to the early Miocene!!
 * It was the largest land animal!
 * Adults were estimated to be 5- 5.5 meters at the shoulder.
 * It was about 25 feet long, 17 feet tall, and weighing nearly 18 tons at its full size.
 * In terms of weight it was about 4 times the size of a modern bull elephant.
 * Fossils of the indricotherium have been found in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan.
 * It had three hoofed toes on each foot, much like modern rhinos, and had a body shaped of a bulky horse.
 * It had two tusk-like front teeth used to grab the vegetation up at the tops of treesup to 20 feet tall. It would then grind the leaves with specialized molar-like back teeth.
 * This large mammal would give live birth to a large single calf.
 * The calf then needs two to three years spent with their mothers drinking the moms milk to reach a size large enough to evade predators.
 * It is unsure why this animal went extinct but they think it is because of the dry climate some of the vegitation it ate went extinct.