Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
One of the prehistoric world's strangest looking creatures, chalicotherium walked like a gorilla, ate like a panda and had long, razor-sharp claws at the end of each forearm. However, this giant beast's only "prey" were soft shoots from trees. Its closest relatives today are rhinos and horses! They Lived in The Ice Age, They Are Found in Europe and Asia, They Are Borned in 1833
This animal would look much like other chalicotheriid species: an odd-looking herbivore with long clawed forelimbs and stouter weight-bearing hindlimbs.
The type species, Chalicotherium goldfussi, from Late Miocene Europe, was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1833. When the French naturalist George Cuvier first received a cleft claw from Eppelheim, Germany, he identified it as the toe bone of a gigantic pangolin.
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One of the prehistoric world's strangest looking creatures, chalicotherium walked like a gorilla, ate like a panda and had long, razor-sharp claws at the end of each forearm. However, this giant beast's only "prey" were soft shoots from trees. Its closest relatives today are rhinos and horses! They Lived in The Ice Age, They Are Found in Europe and Asia, They Are Borned in 1833
This animal would look much like other chalicotheriid species: an odd-looking herbivore with long clawed forelimbs and stouter weight-bearing hindlimbs.
The type species, Chalicotherium goldfussi, from Late Miocene Europe, was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1833. When the French naturalist George Cuvier first received a cleft claw from Eppelheim, Germany, he identified it as the toe bone of a gigantic pangolin.
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