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How is today's rhinoceros similar to the triceratops dinosaur of long ago? How is it different?

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Very, very distant relatives. Mammals and dinosaurs branched off from a common ancestor hundreds of millions of years ago. They may both have horns, but triceratops and rhinos are very different. Usually you wouldn't refer to them as “related.”

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