Another prehistoric flint artwork find from my usual hunting grounds showing some stunning imagery, but this sculpture is only about on...
Join Mauricio Antón in his search for clues to restore ancient life
Ampelomeryx ginsburgi by WillemSvdMerwe on DeviantArt
D uring the Pleistocene and probably also until the antiquary, Europe was not inhabited by only two species of bovine ...
Colorful dinosaur artwork illustrated from the wild imagination of Julius T. Csotony.
End of the Megafauna - Horse, Elephant, Giraffe, Gelada, Warthog
252mya: “Two new designs by @davidorogenic are now available! Are you in #TeamInvertebrate or #TeamVertebrate? Let us know what you’d like to see next. ” A Cenozoic Bird 🤔🧐You still got four epochs to...
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By far the biggest threat to human evolution was big cats. Arboreal and savannah environments were challenged. Humans may have needed to make noise, like chanting and banging rocks, to intimidate feline predators. That may be why music is so fundamental.
Paraceratherium, also known as "Indricotherium", is a large, extinct hornless rhinoceros. It was an herbivore that lived in the forests of central Asia between 34 and 23 million years ago, weighed as much as three or four adult African elephants. Paraceratherium fossils – found by Roy Chapman...
Prehistoric Aelurodon ferox: A pack chases Neohipparion, a 3-toed horse. North America 16 to 10 Mya. (Mauricio Anton)
Mawsonia is an extinct genus of large coelacanth that lived from Early to Late Cretaceous from 99 to 112 million years ago. Mawsonia is one of the many genera of coelacanth that lived scattered around the globe during the Mesozoic Era. Mawsonia was likely a dominant aquatic predator, eating any...
Peter Schouten - Pleistocene Java: Bubalus palaeokerabau, Stegodon trigonocephalus
Cavemen and modern man were thought to use drugs and alcohol similarly. But new research suggests cavemen used them mainly for rituals and painting.
Description [The scene] A carcass of Paraceratherium transouralicum which may have died of illness, is surrounded by a fellow Paraceratherium and two Paraentelodon species(the largest of Eurasian entelodonts which was almost identical to the North American Daeodon in size!) as well as a large hyper-carnivorous creodont, Hyaenodon weilini at some distance. Suddenly, they are all completely taken aback by an attack from the adjacent bugti river bed, by a monstrous crocodile...! [Titan of titans] The central regions of Asia in the Oligocene era produced arguably the largest terrestrial mammal of the entire Cenozoic, namely the species of the genus Paraceratherium. Paraceratherium and other indricotherids were branched off from hornless, cursorial adapted primitive rhinos called hyracodonts and thus inherited similarly slender, elongated limb structures. Unlike most of hyracodont ancestors however, they evolved into titanic forms. The largest species of the genus, Paraceratherium orgosensis could have reached the shoulder height in the flesh of around 4.8m and weighed 16.5 tons or so(Paul, 1997). This dimension ensures placing of Paraceratherium as the tallest terrestrial mammal of all time and only selective mega proboscideans of such genera as Mammuthus, Elephas, Palaeoloxodon and Deinotherium could rival the mega rhino in terms of weight. [Immune to predation, or...?] The list of contemporaries in the Oligocene central Asia included highly formidable hyper-carnivorous creodonts such as Hyaenodon and nightmarish scavenging 'pigs' entelodonts, but titanic scales of indricotherids allowed them to be virtually immune to any predation. In this regard, I guess that the retained cursorial morphology seen in indricotherids became unfunctional vestige of much smaller hyracodonts. Only one entity however, which was not a fellow mammal member, could've been a predatory threat even for Paraceratherium : a gigantic, 10-11 m long ancient crocodile(Crocodylus bugtiensis) that's mentioned in Dr.Prothero's recent book focused on indricotherids. Was it really possible do you think for super crocs to attack indricotherids of 'almost any sizes' at the edge of river, as the author suggested and as being envisaged in this picture? ~ ⓒJagroar
