Elasmotherium. Computer artwork of an Elasmotherium grazing on the ancient steppe grasslands of what is now Southern Russia. Elasmotherium were giant


Elasmotherium. Computer artwork of an Elasmotherium grazing on the ancient steppe grasslands of what is now Southern Russia. Elasmotherium were giant herbivorous mammals that lived in Eurasia about 3 million years ago, during the Late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene epochs. Related to modern rhinos they had a single massive horn (up to 2 metres long), stood about metres tall at the shoulder, were up to 8 metres long and weighed over 3 tonnes.


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Photo credit: © WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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