Monday, November 26, 2012

Rhino 'cooked to death' 9 million years ago
[ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:46:12 GMT ]

When alive, the rhino (Ceratotherium neumayri) would have weighed between 3,300 and 4,400 pounds (1,500 and 2,000 kilograms), about the size of a young white rhino, though sporting a shorter head. The animal was 10 to 15 years old, a young adult, when it died in a Pompeii-style eruption.About 9.2 million years ago, a teenage two-horned rhinoceros was literally cooked to death when a Mount Vesuvius-like eruption enveloped it in lava reaching more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius), scientists say.


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