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Giant herbivores

The skull of the rhino-sized
Uintatherium had three pairs of
skin-covered horns and a pair of tusks. Chalicotherium

Uintatherium

Megacerops Megacerops
had a pair of
bony nose horns
on its snout.

Massive neck
muscles helped The hind limbs
support the Chalicotherium were much shorter
heavy head. had massive, than the front limbs.
hooklike claws.
Barylambda

The strong limbs of
this heavily built North
American animal had
blunt, hooflike claws.

After the disappearance of the giant show that the world’s forests and plains were
dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, most becoming populated by a range of spectacular
mammals were still pretty small. But over herbivores. These eventually included the early
time, new types evolved and replaced the huge elephant Gomphotherium and the odd-looking
plant-eaters that had vanished from the Earth. Chalicotherium, with its long claws that forced
182 Fossils dating from after 60 million years ago it to walk on its knuckles. Some of the biggest of

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