Hyracodon Tooth therapod Sherborne Preparatory School

Sherborne Preparatory School

feathered carnivores

SAMURAI SWORD (14th Century)

Access to this material is exceedingly rare

Hyracodon Tooth therapod Sherborne Preparatory SchoolAbove: The Front of the Specimen Card The Hyracodon, one of the oldest relatives of the modern rhino, was a byproduct of the mammalian explosion of diversity in the Eocene. Colloquially known as the Running Rhino for its long slender legs, the creature was much smaller than the rhinos we know today and lacked the iconic horn. The North American species settled in what is now the Midwest, where it evolved long legs that let the Hyracodon run through