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Deinotherium

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din06-10102

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 21 cm

Deinotherium traverse the rolling plains of what is today Europe. A prehistoric relative of modern elephants, Deinotherium was larger and had a shorter trunk and downward-curving tusks attached to its lower jaw. Deinotherium is the third largest land mammal known to have existed; only Paraceratherium and some mammoths were larger. Deinotherium likely behaved like modern elephants and may have lived side-by-side with the early human ancestor Australopithecus.

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2011 - ANIMAL - CENOZOIC - DEINOTHERIUM - EARTH - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MAMMAL - MIOCENE - PLEISTOCENE - SYNAPSID -