One of the farmers of the Uzbek village of Karatepa dug a place in the garden for a greenhouse and found the remains of an ancient rhinoceros Indricotherium. The find was reported in the Namangan Regional State Historical and Cultural Museum.
In Uzbekistan, one of the farmers in the village of Karatepa discovered in his garden the skeleton of an ancient rhinoceros, reported on Telegram, employees of the Namangan Regional State Historical and Cultural Museum on March 15.
The man was digging a place for a greenhouse in his garden; he found the remains at a depth of one meter. The excavation site was visited by biologists, archaeologists and museum staff. They found that the found remains belonged to Indricotherium, a giant rhinoceros that lived in the territory of modern Asia about 20-30 million years ago.
Uzbek portal Habar.uz wrote that the bones of a mammal were first discovered in 1846 in the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan. They consisted of the bones of the upper jaw, lower teeth, and the back of the jaw.
Indricotherium is one of the largest land mammals to date. Scientists claim that it was eight meters long and up to six meters high. The mammals weighed 15–20 tons. They lived in Asia, mainly in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Pakistan and India.
The animal ate mainly plants and shrubs. Ancient rhinos may have disappeared due to climate change, slow reproduction, habitat changes, deforestation and reduced food consumption, scientists believe.
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