In this blog post I will be discussing the Arsinoitherium.
This creature roamed the earth for 5 million years on the plans of northern Africa. Its Greek for ‘Arsenoe’s beast”. This is how you pronounce the prehistoric animal. are-sih-noy-THEE-re-um. It’s about 10 ft. wide and around one ton. Its diet was plants. It has the body of a rhinoceros –like trunk with two conical horns on its head. They are mammals. No predators would try to fight this creature because of their deadly horns. Whoever had the biggest horns would win the female and mate with her. You can find bones in Egypt of this creature. It was probably a swamp dweller as well in the plains.
This is the picture of a Arsinoitherium. I found this picture on bbc.co.uk.
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