Largest Known Mammal
Friday, 25. January 2008, 09:12:33
The heaviest, longest, highest mammal ever known to have existed is the Indricotherium.
Indricotherium is a genus of extinct mammals that lived in Asia during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (37-32 million years ago). Indricotherium is the largest land mammal known, rivalling in size with the gigantic Mammuthus sungari. The mean size of adults is estimated to have been 5.2 m tall, 8.2 m in length and a weight of about 15 tons. It was a herbivore that stripped leaves from trees with its down-pointing, tusk-like upper teeth that occluded forward-pointing lower teeth. It could probably reach vegetation in 8 m height.
Indricotherium is named after a mythical Russian beast called the "indrik", considered the most powerful creature and the father of the animals.
Indricotherium appears in episode 3 of the BBC series Walking with Beasts as the main character.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indricotherium
• http://www.prehistory.com/indricth.htm
• http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/land.shtml
• http://www.ocellated.com/2006/01/09/indricotherium/
Indricotherium is a genus of extinct mammals that lived in Asia during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (37-32 million years ago). Indricotherium is the largest land mammal known, rivalling in size with the gigantic Mammuthus sungari. The mean size of adults is estimated to have been 5.2 m tall, 8.2 m in length and a weight of about 15 tons. It was a herbivore that stripped leaves from trees with its down-pointing, tusk-like upper teeth that occluded forward-pointing lower teeth. It could probably reach vegetation in 8 m height.Indricotherium is named after a mythical Russian beast called the "indrik", considered the most powerful creature and the father of the animals.
Indricotherium appears in episode 3 of the BBC series Walking with Beasts as the main character.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indricotherium
• http://www.prehistory.com/indricth.htm
• http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/land.shtml
• http://www.ocellated.com/2006/01/09/indricotherium/
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