Paraceratherium
The Paraceratherium were huge creatures, the largest land mammals ever to live on Earth. The largest Paraceratherium specimens found were 12 metres long and massively built, weighing nearly three times as much as an African bull elephant. Paraceratherium's name, meaning "near horn animal", came from its resemblance to a rhinoceros, but it lacked a horn. Instead, it possessed twin downward-pointing incisor teeth that it used to efficiently strip leaves and branches from trees. Paraceratherium herds consumed tons of plant matter every day, and so roamed constantly from one section of woodland to the next in search of food. The sheer size of the Paraceratherium meant it had no significant predators; the only things that could bring down the prehistoric titan were disease, starvation and old age. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Paraceratherium profile provided in Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"] was, in fact, recycled from Cubicle Seven's Primeval game.
