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TIL about Arsinoitherium - an extinct genus of paenungulate mammals. Arsinoitheres were superficially rhinoceros-like herbivores that lived from 36 to 30 mya. The most noticeable features of Arsinoitherium were two enormous horns above the nose & a 2nd pair of tiny knob-like horns over the eyes.

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