Monday, 8 October 2012

Largest land mammal’s skeleton finds home at Islamabad Museum of Natural History

ISLAMABAD - A skeleton of “Baluchitherium”, the largest land mammal in the world, has been preserved and installed at the of Natural History (PMNH).
Baluchitherium lived in Balochistan, is an extinct Rhinoceros and the largest land mammal to have ever lived on earth, about 30 million years ago.
It is called Baluchitherium, with “Baluchi” for Balochistan and “therium” for beast. It literally means the “beast of Balochistan” and was named so because it was first discovered in

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