Rhino 'cooked to death' 9 million years ago

Monday, November 26, 2012 - 12:05 in Paleontology & Archaeology

About 9.2 million years ago, a teenage two-horned rhinoceros was literally cooked to death when a Mt. Vesuvius-like eruption enveloped it in lava reaching more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius), scientists say.

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