Giants among us: Paper explores evolution of the world's largest mammals

The largest mammal that ever walked the earth - Indricotherium transouralicum, a hornless rhinoceros-like herbivore that weighed approximately seventeen tons and stood about eighteen feet high at the shoulder - lived in Eurasia almost 34 million years ago. In a paper just published in the journal Science, an international team of researchers has compiled and analysed an enormous database of information about the largest mammals across time and around the globe, revealing striking patterns in their evolution...

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