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[camwyn]

There is a prehistoric, nasty, bone-crunchy predatory beast called Sarkastodon. It's huge. It's one of the two lead competitors for 'biggest terrestrial mammalian predator ever'.

Is it wrong of me to fall in love with an obscure mammal based solely on its name? Sarkastodon! Snarkiest predator ever to roam the plains of ancient Mongolia!

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[cupenny.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong...?

Not if you have some sort of pictures of said beastie to share with us! *curiouses*

[camwyn]

They're hard to come by, but:

I have no idea what the woman is supposed to be doing in that picture other than offering an idea of the scale of the beast. The web page I found it on is written entirely in Chinese except for the Latin names of the animals depicted. It's the best picture I can find of the thing, since most of the fossils are in Mongolia or something.

[derien.livejournal.com]

This link doesn't want to work for me.

[camwyn]

...urgh. that makes two of us.

I'll fix it later. It's sort of a bear thing with a raccoon style tail and a head made for crunching, with its back being about level with a Chinese woman's nose.

[kyrielle]

*gigglefits*

[truebluespark]

If that's wrong, then I don't want to be right. *laugh* It even looks snarky.

[newredshoes]

Ohmygod! Between this and new skintight spacesuits, we are practically living in comic books today! :-D

[camwyn]

Pretty close, esp. since I found Sarkastodon while I was looking for creodont predators in general and got referred back to a species called Andrewsarchus. Which had a three-foot-long skull and jaws like the wrath of an angry god.

These things will be roaming the streets of Manhattan just as soon as I can get the plots in Ray's world to let me turn them loose.

[batyatoon]

Andrew: "... Ray, I swear to Kahless, I had nothing to do with that."

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I give you the sarcastic fringehead. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead)

I saw one of these at the Long Beach Aquarium this weekend and filed the name with the Shasta and Hansen Ground Sloths and the Fragile Eagle, all of which are megafauna that have been found around the La Brea Tar Pits. The sloths clearly are named for the sodas that were part of their regular diet, and I think the eagle might still be in existence if someone had just given it a hug and told it that things were going to be okay.

[camwyn]

.... and now I just adore the fact that there's a place on the Web called the Strange Fish Identification Website.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

Is it sad I keep wanting to read it as "Saskatoon"?

Because of course they named a town in Saskatchewan after it.

[batyatoon]

If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

*just laughed uncontrollably aloud for close to forty-five seconds*

[ymfaery]

Heeeeee. If that's wrong, I don't want to be right. XD