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Strange snouted horse found in China

  • 07-08-2019 12:04AM
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    It's called a "Probodiscipparion", and its described as being "large to giant sized" and having a similar nose structure to a tapir. A trunked horse? :eek:
    It is also said to have lived besides water, like a tapir. A water horse?? :eek::eek:

    http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-skull-hipparion-early-pleistocene-longdan.html

    skullofhippa.jpg

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