Re: Re: HERBIVORES TO CARNIVORES..

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

>  Regarding mokele-mbembe... saw in a recent National
>Geographic a photo of an artist showing a drawing of the 
>beast to some locals whose descriptions the illustration was 
>based on.
>
> THIS time the thing didn't come out even remotely 
>dinosaurian.... looked like a rhinoceros with a really 
>extreme horn....
>

Elasmotherium sibricus?  In the Congo?

Well, at least it's a Neogene creature... ;-)

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
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