BIG DOG! [Alynx Pt. 2]

[svensson]

So we got to talking about Alynxes, their size, and their comparison to dogs.

Here is a short [15 min] vid from the Extinct Earth series that discusses some of that. I thought some of you might be interested.

 

[Joerg]

This does sound like a dog-and-a-half that could have been hunting rhinoceros in the Pamaltelan Veldt.

[Ynneadwraith]

Man borophagines are rad! Epicyon even means 'more than a dog'. Why stop at rhinoceros' when you could have rhinoceros-and-a-half as well?

Oh, anyone else looking for some other weird prehistoric animals to sandwich in somewhere should look at chalicotheres, entelodonts, early proto-whales like pakicetus, or thylacoleo the marsupial lion (or thylacosmilus for an animal that better fits that description, because thylacoleo just weird). Dinosaurs are cool and all, but prehistoric mammals are every bit as weird and cool.

Edited April 15, 2024 by Ynneadwraith

[Joerg]

5 minutes ago, Ynneadwraith said:

Man borophagines are rad! Epicyon even means 'more than a dog'. Why stop at rhinoceros' when you could have rhinoceros-and-a-half as well?

Oh, anyone else looking for some other weird prehistoric animals to sandwich in somewhere should look at chalicotheres, entelodonts, early proto-whales like pakicetus, or thylacoleo the marsupial lion (or thylacosmilus for an animal that better fits that description, because thylacoleo just weird). Dinosaurs are cool and all, but prehistoric mammals are every bit as weird and cool.

Prehistoric mammals are what populate the Pamaltelan Veldt, too - and I did not specify the sizes of rhinos in the Veldt. There is a reason why the Six-Legged Empire hired designers from Remakerela to create the Rascullu rhino centaurs. "Ice Age 2" had plenty pleistocene critters which may have been extinct for millennia by the time humans entered their habitat zone.