Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The Anatolia Times-Rhinoceros Fossils Unearthed In Kirikkale

"Rhinoceros Fossils Unearthed In Kirikkale

KIRIKKALE - A team of scientists unearthed in the central Anatolian city of Kirikkale, fossils of Baluchitherium, a kind of gigantic hornless rhinoceros lived in Asia some 25 million years ago, .

Turkey is the fifth country besides Pakistan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China and Mongolia in which Baluchitherium fossils were found.

The fossils belonged to a male, female and a six-month-old baby rhinoceros.

Baluchitherium is believed to have been the largest land mammal ever to have lived. They went extinct 10 million years ago."

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