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Created a page for Elasmotherium, a kind of extinct rhinoceros.
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'''''Elasmotherium''''' (''Elasmo''=plate, ''therium''=beast) was a rhinoceros relative. It was named in 1878 by Johannes Fridericus Brandt.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref>
==Description==
Elasmotherium was a quadruped herbivore. It is thought to have been a grazer.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref> It is sometimes called the ‘giant unicorn’ because of the single, large horn growing from its head. The horn, made of keratin, could be about six feet long in length.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref> In total, the animal was about six feet tall and twenty feet long, weighing from 3.5 to 4.5 tons.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref> Despite being such a large animal, Elasmotherium was capable of reaching swift running speeds, producing the most kinetic energy of all land mammals, at twenty-five miles per hour.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
==Habitat==
Elasmotherium liked the Pleistocene steppe regions in Europe and Asia. It consumed grasses as an herbivore and is thought to have been a grazer. A likely capable runner and adept swimmer, Elasmotherium could likely thrive in different steppe-regions.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
==Evolutionary claims==
Evolution scientists claim that Elasmotherium is a relative to the Indian rhinoceros due to similarities in size and range/distribution.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
== References ==
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'''''Elasmotherium''''' (''Elasmo''=plate, ''therium''=beast) was a rhinoceros relative. It was named in 1878 by Johannes Fridericus Brandt.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref>
==Description==
Elasmotherium was a quadruped herbivore. It is thought to have been a grazer.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref> It is sometimes called the ‘giant unicorn’ because of the single, large horn growing from its head. The horn, made of keratin, could be about six feet long in length.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref> In total, the animal was about six feet tall and twenty feet long, weighing from 3.5 to 4.5 tons.<ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/extinct/Elasmotherium.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref> Despite being such a large animal, Elasmotherium was capable of reaching swift running speeds, producing the most kinetic energy of all land mammals, at twenty-five miles per hour.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
==Habitat==
Elasmotherium liked the Pleistocene steppe regions in Europe and Asia. It consumed grasses as an herbivore and is thought to have been a grazer. A likely capable runner and adept swimmer, Elasmotherium could likely thrive in different steppe-regions.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
==Evolutionary claims==
Evolution scientists claim that Elasmotherium is a relative to the Indian rhinoceros due to similarities in size and range/distribution.<ref>http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-elasmotherium.htm</ref>
== References ==
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