The Evolution of Rhinos

There are currently only 5 living rhino species and four of them are endangered. However turn the clock back 5-35 million years ago and the rhino super family was considerably more diverse and widespread spreading to continents where they no longer live.

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[fieldfrost]

hats off to Dmitry Bogdanov for drawing every single species of animal to have ever existed !

[greygoregoose]

if you want to be terrified, i highly suggest seeing a fossil of a paraceratherium in person. pictures just don’t do it justice, those things were HUUUGE

[douglasgorde]

The biggest takeaway I’ve gotten from this series thus far is the fact that most, if not all, mammals were friend-shaped at some point in their evolution

[bekakilov]

This channel cures depression. Makes me feel very human and connected with the world.

[zoltanperei]

Elephants already look like they are gonna break under their massive size, so the fact that there was a mammal this big and capable for walk is beyond me.

[chheinrich]

I love how the few extinct rhinos that had 2 horns side by side on their nose still had smaller horns than arsinoitherium, one of my favorites mammels from the eocene

[adreabrooks]

Paraceratherium always reminds me of that old joke:
"What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?"
"'Ell if I know!"
I'll see myself out...

[jameskazd]

i really love these "evolution of" videos, hope you keep it going for a long time Moth Light

[shingshangshong]

You will probably never read this but
i have watched every single one of your videos and I love all of them.

Your style of presentation, the structure, the amount of details and, above all, your soothing voice made you my favourite channel on all of YouTube.

I hope you keep going forever and please don’t change your style. It is perfection!

[gattycroc]

I'm sure many of you myself included where introduced to Paraceratherium in Walking with Beast. I really hope we get another documentory Oligocene Asia because one creatures that was not in the third episode of that series is Astorgosuchus.

[daniell]

Just yesterday I was telling a family member about Paraceratherium and how huge they were, so this is especially timely. I can't help but feel we humans missed contact with all the coolest animals just barely. If we'd evolved just a few thousand years earlier... oh well, no use pondering what might have been.

[post-leftluddite]

A new Moth Light video is a great thing

[eamonahern]

0:45 that's what a unicorn really was.

[OdorGod]

Let’s all take the time to praise the 1st single cell organism that fought to survive so we can all hit the like button today

[kostasl]

Great video. Original topic as well.

Can you consider doing the "story" of the first fish? There aren't many videos around about this topic and the occurrence of chordates is a really interesting case.
Thanks.

[QuantumEggMan]

Absolutely love this series. It would be great though if you could do a rapid recap at the end of each video to summarize the key events/lineages.

The effort you put In is amazing

[Eye_Exist]

This is the best animal and paleontology related channel on this site, thank you very much again for your upload.

[--INDIGO--]

First time being relatively early with a new video. Been subbed for over a year and haven’t seen a single bad video from you. Hope you keep at it and thanks so much for all the work you’ve put out. 👍

[vermillion]

Can you do a video on the evolution of arthropod exoskeletons?

[robrice]

I often wonder why those two Ice Age rhinos never made one last push into North America during the Pleistocene (were there various factors that may have restricted them)?