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1994年,新疆文物考古研究所在吐鲁番的兰新铁路复线修筑工地的第三纪渐新世地层中,发现了一具近乎完整的巨犀化石骨架。经北京自然博物馆古生物二室技术人员的装架,这具珍贵的化石骨架现已耸立在吐鲁番自然博物馆大厅里。这个体长4米,肩高近5.5米的庞然大物着实让人感到惊讶,要知道这是地球上曾经生活过的最大陆生哺乳动物呀!它体重达33
In 1994, Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology discovered a nearly complete giant rhinoceros fossil skeleton in the Tertiary-Oligocene strata of the construction site of the Second Line of the Lan-Xin Railway in Turpan. The precious fossil skeleton now stands in the Turpan Museum of Natural History, framed by technicians from the Palaeontology Unit II of the Beijing Natural History Museum. This body length of 4 meters, nearly 5.5 meters shoulder height monster really surprised, we must know that this is the largest terrestrial mammal on Earth ever lived it! It weighs 33