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A book for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of the Indricotheres introduces a prime candidate for the largest land mammal that ever lived—the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. Donald R. Prothero tells their story, from their discovery by paleontologists just a century ago to the latest research on how they lived and died, with some interesting side trips along the way.

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"""In a look at the biggest of these wonders ... Prothero delves into these overlooked big guys, the most massive mammals to ever walk the Earth ... [and] cuts across every aspect of paleontology to tell the story of these vanished giants. Chapters range from entertaining recounting of discoverers ... to scholarly descriptions of the rules that biologists must follow to name a new species or estimate a vanished rhino's weight.""--USA Today"

In a look at the biggest of these wonders ... Prothero delves into these overlooked big guys, the most massive mammals to ever walk the Earth ... [and] cuts across every aspect of paleontology to tell the story of these vanished giants. Chapters range from entertaining recounting of discoverers ... to scholarly descriptions of the rules that biologists must follow to name a new species or estimate a vanished rhino's weight. --USA Today

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Recipient of the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences. Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has published 32 books, including Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future (IU Press, 2013); Earth: Portrait of a Planet; The Evolution of Earth; Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters; Catastrophes!; and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (IU Press, 2006).

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