China fossils show new extinct giant rhino

Updated June 18 2021 - 7:59pm, first published 7:53pm
The dispersal of giant rhino fossils indicate "Tibet, as a plateau, did not yet exist".
The dispersal of giant rhino fossils indicate "Tibet, as a plateau, did not yet exist".

Fossils found in northwest China's landlocked Gansu province indicate a new species of giant rhino that lived more than 26 million years ago, according to a paper published in the journal Communications Biology.

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