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or an indricotherium or a baluchitherium. it is still not certain whether there was only one gigantic rhinoceros, or more
over 5 m tall at the shoulders and head was held as high as 8 m above the ground. it would tower even above a giraffe. behold the largest terrestrial mammal in evidence!
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I only have a rough crease pattern...
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Oh.... well, can I see it anyway? Also, thanks for the llama.
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I'm afraid that's not posssible at the moment, I only have a messy sketch in one of my old sketchbooks, i'd have to draw a digital version first, but when I do, I'll upload it.
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Okay. I'll wait. Thanks anyway! *hugs Palaeorigamipete*
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awesome. i still am amazed this behemoth was as massive as a midsize sauropod.
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i wonder what would have happened if a beast like that actually met a large theropod like T. rex?
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T. rex would have a lunch
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yeah, there is not much discussion about it. it may be big, but it has no horns or a muscular tail to defend itself against such monster
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Thanks! Funnily enough, this one is quite simple. I have quite a lot of more complex models on my list, like this one: [link]
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LOL, really? It looks pretty complex to me.
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It depends on perspective and experience, if you only know traditional models, this will be a hard one, but if you have some further experience, it won't be that difficult, the "magic" of this piece lies in the shaping and final touches, rather than excessive structural complexity.
Just to show you how far can one go with an uncut square of paper, here is Ryujin 3.5 by Satoshi Kamiya: [link]
"Merlion" by Andrey Ermakov: [link]
dung beetle by Naoto Horiguchi: [link] [link] and Apotomopterus maacki aquatilis also by Naoto: [link]
Pavel Nikushin's fugu: [link] and his thorned crab: [link]
You can see now that I've barely scratched the surface with my model.
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Wow, I just saw your picture in the Dutch newspaper! 
"The giant rhino is made by Petr StuchlΓ½ from the Czech Republic. Petr is now a student, but he already began with oregami when he was 11 years old. He loves folding insects, lobsters and extinct animals the most. "But no extinct animals, because they already get so much attention", he writes in an e-mail. [...] "Paraceratherium was the biggest mammal that has ever lived*", knows Petr. "They could rise their head up to 8 meters high and weighed some 20 tons." That's equally heavy as two busses. Funny actually: the paper animal weighs almost nothing. [...] Which extinct animals would James and Petr want to make once? They both choose for the same animal: a trilobite."
Congratulations, my friend! 
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And I wanted this to be a surprise for my fellow deviants... 
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Oww, well, you can hide my comment if you want to! 
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I think I'll only appear in that newspaper. 
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Then how did you wanna surprise your fellow deviants, because I guess I'm just one of your very few or even your only Dutch watcher
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I wanted to put the notice on DA, funny thing is that I made a deal with the editor that I'll get a pdf of that article, but I got nothing so far D=
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Well, at least you've got my picture!
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yeah! I think i'll do it! thanks!
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You're welcome, my friend!
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This is probably the closest 3 dimensional rendition of Paraceratherium to the mammal's actual proportions. Many artists in the past assumed the rhino-cousin had a shape similar to today's extant rhinos: a barrel-shaped torso atop 4 short pillar legs. In fact many scientists now believe it was a more slender animal more in proportion to a draft horse. This mammal attained a mass equivalent to a mid-sized sauropod dinosaur. Not bad for a mammal. Paleontologists theorized that land mammals are limited in size compared to dinosaurs because of our 7 neck vertebrae and the fact we have to chew our food.
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Thank you so much! I am really glad you think so! It took me a lot of time to shape this model.
And I agree with you, weighting as much as a mid-sized sauropod is not bad for a mammal at all!
Yeah, I have read that sauropods swallowed stones to help with digestion.
If you don't mind me asking, why is the number of mammalian neck vertebrae and chewing a limitation of the top size mammals can reach?
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Most mammals with the exception of the Xenarthrans have a maximum of 7 neck vertebrae. To increase the length of the mammalian neck, the length of each individual vertebrae must correspondingly increase. Giraffes and every other long-necked mammal found so far could only work from their 7 neck vertebrae.
Dinosaurs on the other hand and sauropods in particular had a variable number of neck vertebrae throughout their evolutionary history. They can increase neck length by adding more vertebrae. Dinosaurs can grow longer and more flexible necks. Long necks would be counterbalanced by long tails. Mammals had a variable number of tail vertebrae, but there was seldom a need for a long dinosaurian-like tail.
Sauropods used their teeth mostly to gather food rather than chew it. They broke down their food with stones in their gizzards. Most mammals mechanically break down their food by chewing and we don't have gizzards to do that job. Chewing requires muscles and prominent attachment points from the skull as well as a battery of grinding teeth. You need a large and heavy skull to accommodate those features. Carrying a large heavy head at the end of a long neck might not be an effective method to acquire sustenance. That is it would not be energetically efficient.
Proboscideans got around the issue of passing food to their heavy heads by developing a prehensile trunk. The largest Proboscideans was the genus Deinotherium at 10 tonnes. We have yet to discover a super-sized Proboscidean.
Paraceratherium dwarfed most of the Ornithischian dinosaurs. Shantungosaurus was a hadrosaurid that nearly rivaled Paraceratherium in size.
Below is a link to an scientific paper theorizing evolution of large size among sauropods
[link]
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Oh, I see now.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply!
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I've been folding for over 9 years, and I've been doing it very intensively in the beginning, but I am still an "avceragely good" designer really, I always show this: [link] to people when I want to show them how beyond my skill level lie the limits of folding a square of paper.
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Wooo...oooot! 
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Holy shit. That dragon is amazing.
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Yeah. and the most amazing thing about it is that it's a strict origami model - one uncut square of paper.
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I can't believe it. That is amazing.
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Yeah. It's the most complex origami design so far
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Incredible!
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But this one is folded from paper!
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Yes, I know, but I was just trying to express my amazement!
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