hello
I think this thing is cool
it's big
it's like an elephant horse

>>5008871 (OP)
I want them back...

>>5008871 (OP)
This is a dog horse

>>5008871 (OP)
They might've gotten as big as sauropods if they continued to evolve. What killed them off?

>>5009815
Changing environment and climate

>>5009815
Being too big

>>5009815
elephants

>>5009815
Literally me

>>5009834
Why did you kill them?

>>5009815
No they couldn't because they didn't have air sacs, light weight bones, and gestation also limits size.

I've heard they were at the theoretical limit of how big a mammal could get.

>>5011976
>I've heard they were at the theoretical limit of how big a mammal could get.
damn, I guess they lied to me about blue whales

We lost so many weird mammals.

>>5011976
Not just mammals, 15-20 tons is the size limit for non-sauropod hacked land animals. The largest paraceratheres, mammoths, and hadrosaurs all maxed out there. Theropods too if you believe certain Goliath scaling.
>>5012031
This nigga

I'd love to carve some of their meat and cook it on a spit roast

>>5009797
reading Aristotle today found this:
>The animal called "hyaena" is as large as a wolf with a mane like a horse[...] It will lie in wait for a man and chase him and will inveigle a dog within its reach by making a noise that resembles the retching noise of a man vomiting. It is exceedingly fond of putrefied flesh, and will burrow in a graveyard to gratify this propensity.

>>5008871 (OP)
Why don't fantasy settings use Paraceratherium or other Myocene animals? Imagine if in skyrim or lotr we got a horde of these bad boys going over the lplains, lifting up a dust cloud, carrying and army on their back.
Instead we get boring old pleistocene mammoths and dire wolves

>>5012443
If I had money; I would pay a an artist nigga to render them for my Skyrim mod
But alas

>>5012035
What's weird about that? There's a bunch of stuff that looks close enough to that running around.

>>5012443
MTG had Indriks.

>>5013004
Because my pic related is an artiodactyl and ultimately what turned into cetaceans. I'd call that pretty weird.

>>5014363
That is the opposite of losing a weird mammal, it's a normal mammal turning into a weird one.