Remains of a large resident rhinoceros have been discovered 26 million years ago

Researchers say the newly discovered remains of a large rhinoceros in western China show that it was once considered one of the largest land animals.

The rhinoceros, known as parasatrion lynxinism, lived about 26.5 million years ago and weighed 21 tons, the weight of four large African elephants.

This formless animal - a breed born in the year 2015 in Wangjiachuan, China - was 7 meters long and grow taller than a giraffe.

Recent findings show that fox remains have been discovered in Gansu Province, China.

Details of the study were published in the journal Biological Relations, which, according to experts, differed greatly from the fossils of other large Kurdish foxes.

According to the study, a skull of a rhinoceros headed by Dr. Deng Tao, of the Animal Remains Foundation in Beijing, showed that the animal had a long head and a high brain.

They say the rhino was similar to the large rhinoceros that inhabited what is now Pakistan.

Apparently, the rhinoceros lives in northwestern China and between the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent.

"Temperatures allowed this giant to return to Central Asia in the north," Professor Deng said in a statement.