Nature Cycles

Monday, June 15, 2009

Deinotherium

Deinotherium (Deinotherium bozasi) were not dinosaurs. They were elephant-like mammals. They were so dangerous, their name means "terrible beast". They are from the deinothere family from the mammal category.

They were herbivores, but still deadly. They fed on vegetation and stripped bark. They looked a lot like elephants. They were related to elephants. They were much bigger than elephants; they were 4 metres at the shoulder (males), and 3.5 metres at the shoulder for females. They had a tusk sticking out of their chins, and like an elephant, had a long trunk. They were fast and sometimes they got too dangerous, filled with testosterone, the Australopithecus had to stay away if they didn't want to get crushed. They lived 20-2 million years ago, with the Australopithecus, in the Miocene period.

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