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The white rhino can weigh up to 4.5 tonnes, making it one of the bulkiest land animals after elephants. Known for their wide mouths and grazing habits, white rhinos are mostly found in parts of ...

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed.

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor.

After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went unchallenged. In South America ...