The Evolution of Rhinos

There are currently only 5 living rhino species and four of them are endangered. However turn the clock back 5-35 million years ago and the rhino super family was considerably more diverse and widespread spreading to continents where they no longer live.
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The biggest takeaway I’ve gotten from this series thus far is the fact that most, if not all, mammals were friend-shaped at some point in their evolution

[@post-leftluddite]

What is "friend-shaped"?

[@douglasgorde5823]

@@post-leftluddite in the simplest terms possible, its appearance makes you want to go up and pet it and try to make it your friend

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round a cute.

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[@joeshmoe8345]

What does that mean “friend-shaped”?

[@fieldfrost4220]

hats off to Dmitry Bogdanov for drawing every single species of animal to have ever existed !

[@grey4904]

if you want to be terrified, i highly suggest seeing a fossil of a paraceratherium in person. pictures just don’t do it justice, those things were HUUUGE

[@peabrain6872]

Its was gonna be HUUGE - paraceratrumpium

[@johnortmann3098]

There used to be a full-sized, full-body reconstruction of one in Elephant Hall in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln natural history museum. It towered over the mounts of a group of African elephants.

[@blarpnarp]

@@peabrain6872 “i talked to aaaalll the other megafauna… and they said i was yuuuuge, way yuger than any other megafauna… sleepy joes megafauna wish they could be like me”

[@thatdogguy9838]

Where did you see one? Please say somewhere in europe

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i wish i saw one in real life, they should use its dna to bring it back to life

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Elephants already look like they are gonna break under their massive size, so the fact that there was a mammal this big and capable for walk is beyond me.

[@fredbloggs8072]

And modern elephants are also dwarfed by some of their extinct cousins. It's astounding that Palaeoloxodon, the giant extinct elephant mentioned, probably weighed the same as 3 full-grown African elephants. Taller & far heavier than a T-Rex.

[@LimeyLassen]

@@fredbloggs8072 Makes me wonder if they had long lifespans to match

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

​@@LimeyLassen Almost definitely, large animals almost always have long lifespans.

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dinosaurs go brrr

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

@@jimsmith3715 Sauropods had hollow, air-filled bones, they were in a different league. They could have even grown about 20% larger than Argentinosaurus but there wasn't enough food to sustain such body mass. But, as I said, it's really impressive for an animal with non-hollow bones to reach the size of a small sauropod.

[@chheinrich8486]

I love how the few extinct rhinos that had 2 horns side by side on their nose still had smaller horns than arsinoitherium, one of my favorites mammels from the eocene

[@davidegaruti2582]

The miniaturized version

[@LimeyLassen]

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​@@LimeyLassen it sure was😊

[@sacrificed9116]

Arsinotherium was actually closer to elephants.

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Babe hurry, new rhino video dropped!

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i really love these "evolution of" videos, hope you keep it going for a long time Moth Light

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[@gattycroc8073]

I'm sure many of you myself included where introduced to Paraceratherium in Walking with Beast. I really hope we get another documentory Oligocene Asia because one creatures that was not in the third episode of that series is Astorgosuchus.

[@adreabrooks11]

Paraceratherium always reminds me of that old joke: "What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?" "'Ell if I know!" I'll see myself out...

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A new Moth Light video is a great thing

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Great video. Original topic as well. Can you consider doing the "story" of the first fish? There aren't many videos around about this topic and the occurrence of chordates is a really interesting case. Thanks.

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Should've stay that way.

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Isn't that basically an advanced form of ancestor worship?

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Can you do a video on the evolution of arthropod exoskeletons?

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This is the best animal and paleontology related channel on this site, thank you very much again for your upload.

[@daniell1483]

Just yesterday I was telling a family member about Paraceratherium and how huge they were, so this is especially timely. I can't help but feel we humans missed contact with all the coolest animals just barely. If we'd evolved just a few thousand years earlier... oh well, no use pondering what might have been.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Paraceratherium went extinct 23 million years ago

[@NawniColes]

We might have missed paraceratherium, but humans were around to see a bunch of giant (post-dinosaur) animals. It's just that we also killed a lot of them off. We're kind of an invasive species.

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Let us just stive to save those that we have atleast..... so that our grandkids dont like a comment like this

[@GodlyAtheist]

You chase your family members down to talk to them about random extinct dead mammals?

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

​@Its me or whatever It's now speculated that populations of humans would have been too small to hunt any pleistocene megafauna to extinction. Humans would have only been a nail in the coffin after a more natural mass extinction due to climate change. So let's not rush to blame everything on humans. We've only recently become so destructive for the environment.

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[@MathiasEG]

I know the DNA is way too old. But i wish i could see a Paraceratherium in real life. The creature in the thumnail ❤

[@Thulgore]

This comment............but on everything. It's like having a riddle with no absolute solution. A movie/book/story where the ending is completely debatable........all of which annoy the shit out of me. I wish I could see them. I wish I could see them as they were. I can't, never will be able to. Hell, even if they were "resurrected" from extinction I would doubt the truth of their social structure as being "true". I shouldn't comment while drunk.

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[@robrice7246]

I often wonder why those two Ice Age rhinos never made one last push into North America during the Pleistocene (were there various factors that may have restricted them)?

[@AztecCroc]

Elasmotherium lived mostly in the Ukraine and Middle East and the surrounding area. The Wooly Rhino probably did, given how it's range stretched over most of Eurasia, but we've yet to find one in North America so they likely weren't too successful.

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One of my favorite extinct mammals, Paracerathrerium.

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The fact that Paraceratheriidae were once the size of horses makes me imagine an alternate history where we domesticated and rode around on them instead

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Unicorns!

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Fascinating video.

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Wonderful video! Although it is a little odd hearing you miss a syllable in the name of Paraceratherium every time you said it.

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Thanks always interested in new information about extinct species

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The video was very very nise and ypur channel is very good and I suggest you make a video on palaeoloxodon.

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Would love to see a video detailing the evolution on Pachycephalosaurids.

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This is my favorite prehistoric animal.

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Could you please do a program on the evolution of the passerine birds including the little song-birds (robins, bluetits etc.)

[@bird-watcher-91]

How cool would've it have been to see Paraceratherium alive? I also find it amazing how rhinos can distribute their weight even better than an elephant. My favorite living rhino species are the black rhinos. I don't know why but I find their prehensile lips more aesthetically pleasing than the flat, square lips on the southern white rhinos. People did a great job bringing the southern white rhinos numbers up; now the critically endangered black rhinos need help more than ever (same for the Javan and Sumatran, and the Sumatran rhino is the closest living relative to the woolly rhino).

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He dissapeared

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This was lovely as always. Paraceratherium beggars belief in how large it is. Were there even bigger terrestrial mammals? Time may yet tell.

[@EzTheo]

Finally

[@injunsun]

@Moth Light Media, just a pronunciation point: Paraceratherium, you keep missing the middle "ra." You keep pronouncing it as if it is spelt, Paracetherium. It should be, "Peh-rah-Seh-rah-THII-RII-uhm," not, "Peh-rah-seh-THII-RII-uhm." Para means around, and Ceratherium, the ending just means an individual group of Ceratheres, whatever that is in Latin. Perhaps grass eaters? But it is definitely "Seh-Rah-thiirz," not, "Seh-thiirz."

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Can you make video on other afrotheres besides elephants and sea cows

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Please do one on the evolution of annelid worms.

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Paraceratherium inspired George Lucas when creating the AT-AT Imperial Walkers for Star Wars. The similarity really is striking.

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If they're closely related to horses, then does that mean unicorns really existed

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no

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0:45 that's what a unicorn really was.

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Rhinochads…are we gonna make it?

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That rule also applies to languages. Overestimated. "Over exaggerated" is redundant, and thus self defeating.

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Hey mothlight, would you consider making a video about the evolution of fresh water predatory fish? Such as northern pike or large mouth bass?

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You just want to hear him pronounce muskellunge!

[@vincentx2850]

The freshwater fishes of North America today is an interesting case, as the assemblage is almost completely constituted by lineages that moved in from East Asia. The sunfish family, for instance, are most closely related to oriental perches.

[@MikeIsCannonFodder]

@@vincentx2850 How do those two relate to North American perches?

[@vincentx2850]

Not very closely related. Yellow perch is in the same family as walleye and darters, while white perch has a marine ancestry.

[@indyreno2933]

@vincentx2850, actually, freshwater sunfish are more closely related to the serranids and icefish and are grouped with them under the order Serraniformes, whereas both oriental perches and true perches belong to the order Perciformes.

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If these things lived into modern or at least ancient times, you can bet the Romans would have put archers on them and rode them into battle.

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Saw tooth whale slull and tism brain took over but Basilosaurus is my state fossil. Farmers used to plow up rib fossils and skulls that mineralized in the clay. We still find shark teeth in the creek, hundreds of miles from the sea

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Hey, Moth Light Media, it appears you accidentally pasted the sources for your previous video on the evolution of insect flight in the description of this video. Could you please correct this?

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paraceratherium looks like a Chad horse

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Could you please make a video showcasing the evolution of hedgehogs

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Oh yeah

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[@solaireofastora4091]

The northern white rhinoceros is functionally extinct; there are two females left in captivity. In the next decade we will see the end of this animal probably forever.