What is the largest ground mammal who ever lived?

The largest ground mammal, which has ever been known to live, was also known as Indricotherium . This animal can be described as a large rhino without corners with an elongated neck and head due to its body. The Paraceratherium had a height of 5.5 m (18 ft), over 8 m (27 ft) to the length of the tail, the ability to raise the head 7.5 m (25 ft) above the ground and the length of the skull 1.35 m (4.5 ft). For comparison, the largest ground mammal today, an African shrub elephant, has a height of only 3.5 m (11.5 ft). The highest giraffes correspond to the height of the Paracereatherium , but weigh 5-10 times more-they range from 10 to 20 tons. With the volume that puts it in the class of some medium -sized sauropods, it would be necessary to consume half a ton of plant matter a day to maintain. The analysis of his teeth shows that they graze on the leaves and twigs of trees and large shrubs. His skull was almost the size of a human being. Its upper teeth consisted of only two huge incisors, so large that they look like toLy, but during life they were hidden by the upper lip of the animal.

Paracereatherium has lived in the Eurasian subtropical forests from the middle oligocent to early Miocene (about 30 to 20 million years ago). His fossils were found in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, India, Mongolia and China. Although today there are many of these regions of Stepi, during the oligocene times it was fresh subtropical forests. Although world temperatures were relatively cold compared to the mesozoic, they have not yet fallen low enough to convert most of Eurasia into grassland, as it is today.

before Parby was discovered by Aceratherium , Mammoth had the title of the largest ground mammal, especially the steppe Mammoth, which probably approached the size and weight of the Paracereatherium. Steppe Mammoth was the largest land mammal in the world at the time he lived 600,000-370,000 years ago.