Aepyceros datoadeni

In Depth Further Reading -‭ ‬Pliocene Bovidae‭ (‬Mammalia‭) ‬from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru,‭ ‬Lower Awash,‭ ‬Ethiopia,‭ ‬Denis Geraads,‭ ‬Ren� Bobe‭ & ‬Kaye Reed‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.

Archaeotherium

archaeotherium

In Depth        Fist named in‭ ‬1850,‭ ‬Archaeotherium remains one of the best represented entelodonts in the fossil record.‭ ‬Archaeotherium is one of the earlier entelodonts and lived in North America at a time when the landscape‭ ‬was‭ ‬occupied by primitive horses,‭ ‬camels and rhinos and the only real predatory competition it faced were creodonts like … Read more

Andrewsarchus

andrewsarchus

In Depth        In popular culture,‭ ‬especially at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,‭ ‬Andrewsarchus has been presented as a huge predator,‭ ‬similar in form to other quadrupedal meat eating mammals,‭ ‬but powerfully built like a big cat or even a bear.‭ ‬However despite this reconstruction becoming very familiar in the public consciousness,‭ ‬palaeontologists … Read more