This undated diagram image provided by the journal Science shows the largest land mammals that ever lived, from left, Indricotherium and Deinotherium, that would have towered over the living African Elephant. Indricotherium. They just needed some leg room: New research shows the great dinosaur die-off made way for mammals to explode in size _ leading to creatures that would have towered over today's elephants. The largest land mammal ever: A rhinoceros-like creature, minus the horn, that stood 18 feet tall, weighed 17 tons and grazed in the then-forests of what is now Eurasia. It makes the better known woolly mammoth seem a bit puny. (AP Photo/Science)
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