Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in northwest China during the Oligocene. The giant rhino, genus Paraceratherium, was a hornless, long-necked herbivore living in ...

It’s a big deal anytime researchers discover the remains of an unknown prehistoric species. But a recent find is a really big deal. As in the largest land mammal to ever walk the earth big. The newly ...

Paraceratherium was a hornless rhino relative that dwarfed every land mammal alive today. Standing nearly five meters tall at the shoulder and weighing up to 20 tons, it may have been the largest ...

In paleontology, size matters. The lifestyles of the large and charismatic often gain far more attention those of smaller, equally-strange creatures that thrived alongside the leviathans during ...

It seems that at least once a year, news of the “largest dinosaur ever found” makes headlines. That’s because almost all the contenders for the biggest saurian are so fragmentary that settling on an ...

An illustration of what giant rhinos of the Oligocene may have looked like based on fossil evidence from China's Gansu province. Credit: chen yu / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. Glyptodons were enormous armored mammals that ...

Giant rhinos are among the largest mammals to have ever walked this great Earth, and a newly discovered species that lived in northwest China some 25 million years ago is revealing just how ...