Posted on 02/19/2024 8:37:13 PM PST by Red Badger
This video delves into the intriguing tale of Andrew Sarkus Mongali Enus, the largest land predator ever unearthed. Its discovery, nearly a century past, during an expedition in Mongolia, unveiled a creature of formidable proportions. Initially pegged as a member of the Mesonychids, a diverse group of mammals spanning small to large sizes, further scrutiny four decades later revealed Andrew Sarkus's true kinship with the Uintatheres, colloquially dubbed "hell pigs."
The enigmatic nature of Andrew Sarkus is compounded by its solitary status within the Andrew Sids group, making it a challenge to reconstruct its full anatomical profile. Clad in fur and boasting feet adorned with lightly hooved appendages ensheathed in keratin, this behemoth of the ancient world possessed a disproportionately massive head atop a body reminiscent of generic mammalian anatomy, evoking imagery somewhere between a hippopotamus and a formidable carnivore.
Thriving amidst the subtropical forests of China during the Eocene Epoch, approximately 47.8 to 41.2 million years ago, Andrew Sarkus shared its domain with a diverse array of fauna. Its neighbors included various species of artiodactyls, perissodactyls, catfish, freshwater turtles, crocodilians, and towering flightless birds, painting a vivid picture of a lush prehistoric ecosystem teeming with life.
While direct findings and close relatives of Andrew Sarkus remain elusive, the genetic legacy of its extinct kin offers tantalizing glimpses into the creature's possible appearance and behaviors, stirring the imagination and inviting further exploration into the mysteries of Earth's ancient past.
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Tolkien’s warg?
“HELL PIGS”
Expecting to learn that name was invented by a Jew....................
Nailed it.
Hence, to show them as having a fixed size is in essence hyperbolic. We know there was one that was that big, but it doesn't say as much as one would think.
As an aside, Valerius Geist once told me that humans have long developed relationships with large cats, having developed the ability to call them to where fresh signs of canids are found in the hope that the cats will cull the canids, which otherwise breed extremely rapidly.
Gonna need a bigger BBQ........................
There is no way they could reach the conclusions they did (Clad in fur and boasting feet adorned with lightly hooved appendages ensheathed in keratin) with this information.
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Andy Sarkis played Gollum. He wasn’t that big.
War Pigs
Black Sabbath
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord, yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh lord, yeah!
The one in your pic is a LOT bigger than the one depicted at the top of the thread.
Which was plenty big enough.
I don’t think I’d leave the cave with anything less than a .50 BMG.
Name?
Andrew Sarkus Mongali Enus …Hmm. Did the chatbot-generated post perhaps mean Andrewsarchus mongoliensis? And has it been established that this creature really was a predator and not an omnivore?
Thanks Red Badger.
I never thought I’d say I’d rather have a pit bull
There were giant hyenas in North America.
Heck, EVERYTHING was giant—even birds that stalked antelope!
ShrinkFlation
Sitting around looking at all these animals that were but became later something else. Some gone.
Thinking we ‘were’ all these different variations of ourselves (neanderthal, Denisovan...) wondering what ‘we’ will be far into the future.
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