Daily Dose of Prehistory: Back From Extinction 51

Paraceratherium bugtiense, which means "Near the Hornless Beast", is an extinct genus of gigantic hornless rhinoceros that lived in Eurasia, spanning from China all the way to the Balkans, during the Oligocene approximately 34 to 23 million years ago. When I said it was gigantic, I wasn't exaggerating: it measured up to 15.7 feet tall just at the shoulder making it almost twice as tall as an African Elephant, weighed up to 20 tons making it heavier than the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus (mainly due to its light build but still impressive nonetheless) and up to 25 feet long. In fact, Paraceratherium represents the maximum size mammals can obtain on land; anything larger and it wouldn't be able to find enough food to survive day-to-day life. It likely went extinct to a combination of factors such as climate change changing its environment, proboscideans outcompeting it, and its already slow reproduction rate being lowered by high infant mortality rates due to advanced predators.

Why is that Wiesel cat running away with a severed penis?