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Published: 2017-06-08 15:47:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 4976; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 0
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Both of these elephants are adult animals, and both belong to the extinct genus Palaeoloxodon, or the straight tusked elephants. Palaeoloxodon falconeri was a dwarf elephant from Sicily and was the smallest of all elephants, weighing as much as a cow and growing no taller than a human hip. Meanwhile Palaeoloxodon namadicus of Asia was the largest elephant and he largest land mammal of all time, standing taller than a giraffe and weighing up to 24 tons. This creature was as big as five African elephants and bigger than even most the giant sauropod dinosaurs like Brontosaurus.Related content
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Hard to believe these two are not only from the same family, but the same genus!
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Well, I doubt that it was bigger than the biggest Sauropods. Sauropods are generally very light for their size, but the big guys would outweigh it.
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Of course there were several sauropods that grew as big as four of these elephants, but most were smaller.
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If we go by weight...which is the reason why the blue whale is considered the largest animal.
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Palaeoloxodon reached both highs and lows, not even Hyaenodon and Dimetrodon had such great variations in size.
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So what your saying is it compares to Apatosaurus? Which means if it was around it would be too big to be threatened even from allosaurus?
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Really cool! Although correct me if mistaken, is paraceratherium not the largest land mammal to ever live?
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Thanks! And recent estimates show P. namadicus to have been bigger than Paraceratherium. That or they were matched in size.
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Hm. The more ya know
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus is a beast! If it had a huge neck and tail it would probably be as heavy as Giraffatitan! Well, at least the Berlin museum Giraffatitan.
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Its still incredible to think that only a handful of sauropods were bigger than this elephant!
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True. It's about the same size as most sauropods known. And it is even bigger than some of them!
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And both are related to the mid-sized African forest elephant.
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Yup according to new genetic analysis
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