Sentences with deinotherium
- It is a member of a group called the deinotheres which were cousins to the elephants.
- Imagine a landscape inhabited by several kinds of elephantoids, deinotheres, three species of rhino, two species of hippo, and two species of giraffe.
- By the Early Miocene, deinotheres had grown to the size of a small elephant, and had migrated to Eurasia.
- The name deinothere is based on the Greek for ‘terrible beast’, as 19th century naturalists believed that it was a sea monster.