Post by Bobcat on Sept 4, 2003 21:16:25 GMT -5
While visiting my sister in Denver last summer, I went to the Museum of Natural History and I came up on these pre-historic pigs..........this would qualify as a fair chase hunt.........I just don't know who would be chasing who........big as a rhino!
Entelodont
A cross between a pig and a tank, standing fully 7 feet tall and with a brain the size of a fist, entelodonts are cousins to modern pigs and other hoofed animals. Many of their skulls show evidence of severe wounds that could only have been inflicted by other entelodonts during fights. The bony lumps all over their faces probably evolved to protect delicate areas during an attack.
PRONUNCIATION: EN-TELL-OH-DONT
LIVED: 45 – 25 million years ago
SIZE: 7 feet at the shoulder
FACT: Omnivorous, eating mostly scavenged carcasses
MEANING: Perfect-toothed
CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVE: Pigs and other hoofed animals
RANGE: Asia and North America
Entelodont
A cross between a pig and a tank, standing fully 7 feet tall and with a brain the size of a fist, entelodonts are cousins to modern pigs and other hoofed animals. Many of their skulls show evidence of severe wounds that could only have been inflicted by other entelodonts during fights. The bony lumps all over their faces probably evolved to protect delicate areas during an attack.
PRONUNCIATION: EN-TELL-OH-DONT
LIVED: 45 – 25 million years ago
SIZE: 7 feet at the shoulder
FACT: Omnivorous, eating mostly scavenged carcasses
MEANING: Perfect-toothed
CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVE: Pigs and other hoofed animals
RANGE: Asia and North America
. If you find one of them there hawgs call me and I'll call a couple friends with a M-1 ;D