Ausarchosaur (is counting the days til WWD 2025)さんのイラストまとめ

This leads me to wonder if some giant prehistoric mammals could/did do this too. Especially ones without any obvious weapons. Imagine a Macrauchenia, Toxodon, or a Paraceratherium doing this (art by Mark Witton).

@KingRexy328 Reminded of this.

i say we bring back the og anachronistic dinosaur fight of pop culture.

@KingRexy328 Arrowhead-shaped end of the tail. And a longish, S-shaped neck.

He thought mastodons were huge-fanged predators. They weren't, but we had cats that were.
He thought ground sloths were giant lions. They weren't, but we had those too.

A recent study on the brain anatomy of Anteosaurus suggests that it was an agile terrestrial predator based on the size of the floccular lobe and semicircular canals. Art by MALvit.
https://t.co/1nYzfNmKKx

For #FossilFriday a Dinictis skull with puncture marks in its skull. The spacing and shape of the punctures suggest a Hyaenodon horridus bit this nimravid's skull and killed it.
https://t.co/jk6ZDEv21a

Nuralagus rex was a giant rabbit that lived on Minorca until the Pliocene. After Minorca briefly connected with Majorca, Nuralagus is replaced by Myotragus in Pleistocene & Holocene deposits, suggesting the caprine might have outcompeted the leporid.

Art by Ceri Thomas.