by SUHAIL YUSUF
Scientists got the rough idea of the Baluchitherium’s height by looking its bones. But defining the mass of any extinct mammal is a tricky job. Teeth and specially bones are very helpful to identify mass of any mammal. Over decades of investigations, scientists have devised many techniques to find the mass of a mammal by looking at the length and diameter of its bones. These methods can be successfully applied to assess the bone-mass relation of the mammals.
In the geological time scale, Baluchitherium roamed Asia in Oligocene epoch or 30 millions years ago. According to plate tectonics, some 200 million years ago, the sub-continent was locked – it was a part of the great Gondwanaland which comprised South-America, Africa, Sub-Continent and Australia.
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