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H. Thomas ping.
Of course there’s no evidence that the hubris of the Egyptians would ever represent themselves as being bigger than anything found in their environment, including a normal elephant.
more likely a proto-democrat.
Not, to be confused with the Stegosaurus from Angkor Wat.....................Some other carnivorous dinosaur must have bitten off it’s spiked tail?
Interesting. Ever heard of the Mkolele Mbembe of the Congo?
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"David Ingram, an English adventurer, was put ashore with 113 other men between Mexico and Florida in 1568, and he wandered for years in the American interior before making his way to the east coast of the American colonies. In his report to the state secretary of Queen Elizabeth, he described precisely and drew accurate pictures of elephants as well as bison and other animals he and his companions had observed during the journey. Ingram could not have known that some centuries later, elephant bones (mastodons and mammoth) would be discovered all over the continent. This account is not taken seriously, but it is a curious fact that 200 years later President Jefferson was informed by a delegation of Indian chiefs that hunting in the interior lands included animals described as elephants. It is a matter of record that President Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to be on the alert for elephant herds during their exploration of the West" (Internet).
The giraffe isn’t very big and was probably paleoshopped by the artist. So was the elephant/mammoth.
Of more significance, perhaps, is that a single handler has it and another animal in one hand. If that’s supposed to be a bear, I’d say it came from the same region as the elephoth critter; and it wouldn’t be Malta.
Also, it could have been an infant, and the tusks drawn in to signify that its breed is the source of the tusks the handler is carrying. Seems unlikely they’d have brought a full-size to the party (”Get that thing outta here!”) in any case. What for? It’s the ivory that’s special, unless they were into breeding experiments with their own elephants. Which perhaps they were...but even then, you take a smaller specimen. Tusks drawn in for advertising purposes.
Maybe they are giant people?
Sardinia is notorious for dwarf species. Something in the water? soil? that delicious broom? the withering malediction of the Sard? Who knows...
aaiiieee! Living room size mammoths.!!!
If they can be cloned, they will be cloned and we’ll all be invited over to our fashion conscious friends’ homes to see their new pet.
Don’t mind the tusks and be sure to step over the dung on the rug.
