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Life In The Americas
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These Are Not Dinosaurs
These animals are mammals. Just like you, they're more closely related
to mice than to dinosaurs. They lived in North America 25 million years
after the last dinosaur had become extinct--that's still 40 million
years before today!
Titanotheres only look like rhinos
They're big, they eat plants, they've even got horns on their noses
- but they aren't rhinos! These are titanotheres
(tie-TAN-oh-theer means "gigantic beast").
Find out more about rhinos and their relatives.
Get the facts on mammal evolution in the lab!
See the Moropus eat!
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See the sabertooth cat run!
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See the camel run!
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Painting by Charles Knight. Field Museum photo CK-12.1Tc, by
John Weinstein.
