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The giant tapir (Tapirus augustus) [1] [2] [3] is an extinct species of tapir that lived in southern China, Vietnam and Laos, [4] with reports suggesting it also lived in Taiwan, [5] Java, and potentially Borneo. [6] The species has been recorded from Middle and Late Pleistocene. [7] There is only weak evidence for a Holocene survival. [8]
Mo (貘) was the Chinese name for the giant panda from the 3rd century BCE to the 19th century CE. In 1824, the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat identified the mo as the black-and-white Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus).
The giant tapir (Tapirus augustus) was the largest tapir ever, at about 623 kg (1,373 lb) [126] and 1 m (3.3 ft) tall at the shoulders. [127] Earlier, this mammal was estimated even bigger, at 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall, and assigned to the separate genus Megatapirus. [127]
Tapirs are lophodonts, and their cheek teeth have distinct lophs (ridges) between protocones, paracones, metacones and hypocones. [30] [31] Tapirs have brown eyes, often with a bluish cast to them, which has been identified as corneal cloudiness, a condition most commonly found in Malayan tapirs. The exact etiology is unknown, but the ...
Excavations started in 2006 by paleontologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [3] It has yielded many stone tools and over 30 human fossils, and animal bones including those of Ailuropoda, Arctonyx, Bubalus, Sinomegaceros, Stegodon, giant tapir, and giant pandas.
Two-thirds of the world’s more than 300 sinkholes are in China, scattered throughout the country’s west - with 30 known tiankeng, Guangxi province in the south has more of of them than ...
Two giant pandas sent from China earlier this summer made their debut at the San Diego Zoo on Thursday morning as officials welcomed the public into their new habitat.. Four-year-old Yun Chuan and ...
The Malayan tapir is the largest of the four extant tapir species and grows to between 1.8 and 2.5 m (5 ft 11 in and 8 ft 2 in) in length, not counting a stubby tail of only 5 to 10 cm (2.0 to 3.9 in) in length, and stands 90 to 110 cm (2 ft 11 in to 3 ft 7 in) tall.