Deinotherium

Deinotherium It was also called hoe tusker It was an ancester of the elephants It was known to be the 3rd largest land animal It was 3.5 to 4.5 meters tall It weighed 5 to 10 tonnes They browsed vegetation and stripped bark. They lived about 20-2 million years ago. Their tusks and teeth have been found at the major hominid excavation sites including Hadar,Laetoli,Olduvai Gorge,and Lake Turkana. The deinotherium where cousins of the elephants and flourished at the time of Australopithecus. Deinotherium is the third largest land mammal knowen to hav existed.