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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***From about 4 skull fragments and a handful of teeth.***
Kind of like the Piltdown man who turned out to be a fake and the Peking Man for which no bones except skulls are found. The body bones disappeared in WWII.
Murder hornets, now Hell pigs?
Clearly, the result of the global climate crisis.
Was this also the event that reduced the human population to 3000 individuals?
You can gather a few facts and make some pretty good guesses on what they have but you can not reach the conclusions they did.
It is like a few years back they found some prints and decided what made them was a "ferocious predictor" and a couple of decades later they decided it was a "timid vegetarian" instead.
There was no way to come to either conclusion based on what evidence they had.
I am not knocking science or even paleontology.
I am just knocking people who are writing fiction and calling it science.
Are you saying that decreased oxygen and increased carbon in the atmosphere caused an ice age?
CLIMATE DENIER!
Proudly! Deny!
Well if donuts were considered meat, that is.
I think that was Toba.
Imagine one of those in a rodeo. 8 second ride and if you fall off you get eaten.
Or a warg eats the cow you’re trying to rope.
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