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Indricotherium (Indricotherium).

The image above is Indricotherium, the largest land mammal ever discovered. An adult could weigh 20 tons, more than a family of African elephants


The Proboscis monkey


While the other exhibits feature models, six real, live sugar gliders will be on display


Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus). Spectacled bears weigh less than a pound when they are born, but grow into 300-pound adults. They also have pretty faces

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Tasmanian devil skeleton
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Cynognathus skull fossil


Chinese pangolin

The pangolin is covered with scales made from keratin, the same stuff that makes up your fingernails

If you scare them, they turn into a ball of blades while spraying you with jets of skunk-like liquid


No list of strange mammals would be complete without the platypus


This odd-looking mammal has a camel-like body and a long giraffe-like neck and a flexible elephant-like trunk


Behold the enormous ancient relative of the armadillo. These herbivores could grow up to 10 feet long and were covered with thick armor