Have you heard of ancient Celtic religion? In ancient times, this religion was prevalent in the Iron Age This polytheistic religion also had some myths like other religions According to this Celtic mythology, there was a god named Moccus. They worshiped this moccasin god as a protector of pig hunters and a protector of warriors. They personified their God Mouse as a pig. Pretty big looking, violent type. Still some tribes worship Mokius.
In the history of the world, 16 million years ago, there lived such a huge wild boar called Entelodonts or Entelodonts. Entelodontes In fact, all members of the Entelodontide family were commonly called. So this is the name of an extinct family, not the name of a specific animal. They are also known as "Hell Pigs". Although they are called Hell Pigs, the funny thing is that these animals are not related to pigs. Rather they are more related to whales and hippopotamuses according to the Evolutionary Tree.
The smallest animals in the Entelodentidae family were much larger than today's pigs. Very small animals weighed about 50 kg. And those among the adults weighed about 900 kg. The animals of this family first appeared in Mongolia and then gradually spread to Asia, Europe and North America. Some North American intellectuals preferred to live in the floodplain and some in the jungle.
Although the Antelodents looked like pigs in some ways, they were different in many ways. Dinohyus, a species of enterodontus, accounts for 35-40% of the scalp of 100% of their body. This is an important difference. They were much larger than the pigs found today, so large that their skulls were about 1 meter long. The Smylodons also had two large teeth on the outside of their mouths, just as they had two large teeth on the outside of their mouths. But not as big as Smylodon. According to researchers, they were so strong and fierce in their time that they used to crush their prey or food bones. It's a little too much to understand, right? 😄 According to BCB Nature, the remains of the Entelodont were found with the teeth of their own relatives, from which the researchers said that during the fight, one of the members of the Entelodont inserted the head of another member in his own mouth. Which has caused this deep wound. The wound is about 2 cm deep.
Seeing their huge bodies and fierce teeth on the outside of their mouths, they may think that they are deadly carnivores. But their jaw teeth are different. They were actually omnivorous or omnivorous. Just as they ate meat, they also ate leaves. Their front teeth were large and sharp, which was useful for tearing flesh, while their back teeth were flat, which is usually perfect for chewing herbs. Their diet consisted of fruits, herbs, meat and eggs. According to the researchers, although they looked fierce, they were more interested in sharing their prey than in hunting themselves. Who are called scavengers. They let other animals hunt, and when they killed the prey, the antelodants would go and scare the prey and snatch the prey's food.
It is unknown at this time what caused the animals to become extinct. However, they are thought to have become extinct due to the extinct mammal Bear Dog. Bear Dog is a kind of animal that is neither a dog nor a bear. However, it seems that a new animal has been created by combining dogs and bears.
There are so many kinds of animals in the world since most of us don't know one of them. It would be nice to know what you said about an animal like that. Looks like thank you so much