The Mystery Of The Biggest Mammalian Land Carnivore To Ever Live

The Archeologist ^ | February 20, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

pinGGG!......................

[Reddy]

Tolkien’s warg?

[Uncle Miltie]

[Hebrews 11:6]

“HELL PIGS”
Expecting to learn that name was invented by a Jew....................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Nailed it.

[Carry_Okie]

Wolves can double in size given suitable nutrition. Just the variability seen in the domestic dog shows that Canids are among the world's most plastic species.

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.

[Red Badger]

Gonna need a bigger BBQ........................

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Being a contrarian I looked up to see how they put this animal together. From about 4 skull fragments and a handful of teeth.

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.

[Chuckster]

later

[Alas Babylon!]

Andy Sarkis played Gollum. He wasn’t that big.

[algore]

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!

[TigersEye]

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.

[Olog-hai]

Name?

[Olog-hai]

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?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[j.havenfarm]

I never thought I’d say I’d rather have a pit bull

[Does so]

There were giant hyenas in North America.

Heck, EVERYTHING was giant—even birds that stalked antelope!

[linMcHlp]

ShrinkFlation

[Beowulf9]

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.