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ITT: Favriote Mammal/Reptile/ Anything

Andrewsarchus gets my vote, This thing was the most efficiant killing machine, Copy-pasta from wiki

>It is possibly the largest land-dwelling carnivorous mammal known. "If Andrewsarchus was proportioned in the same manner as Mesonyx obtusidens, it had a length from the snout to the back of the pelvis of about 12 feet and a height from the ground to the shoulder or middle of the back of about 6 feet. Thus in round numbers it is possible that it may have been three times the size of Synoplotherium (Dromocyon) vorax or of Mesonyx obtusidens."[2] However, like many archaic animals, Andrewsarchus and other mesonychids had a superproportionally large head in comparison to their body size.

>Andrewsarchus possessed some of the strongest jaws ever evolved in a land mammal, able to bite through large bones if needed. To judge from its immense jaws, and the coastal location of the fossils, Andrewsarchus may have fed on beached primitive whales, shellfish and hard-shelled turtles, and contemporary large mammals at various periods during its existence. Toward the end of the Eocene very large mammals (such as the brontotheres) had evolved in the region of Central Asia.

Despite the enormous jaws and very sturdy teeth, Andrewsarchus did not have teeth adapted for the carnassial shear, though its immensely powerful jaws rendered such an adaptation unnecessary. Judging by its sheer size, the animal most likely fed on large animals such as the extinct brontotheres, which were among the largest herbivorous mammals at the time, possibly both hunting them, and scavenging already dead carcasses.
>> Anonymous
OP here, The goat is what the Andrewsarchus' closes living relative now.

Fuck you Evolution, Fuck You.
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This thing was the most efficiant killing machine.
AND STILL IS!
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I always wanted to put a bicycle's inner tube on the slingshot of a brontotherium.
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Favorite mammal: The Chalicothere, which is related too the modern day horse. They walked on their knuckles like Gorillas.
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Favorite Reptile: Rhamphosuchus

Up to 18m long and several tons heavy. Related too modern Gharials. Fucks Crocs and Alligators. Gharials are awesome.

Even the dinosaurs would've trembled before this god.
>> Anonymous
>>244769
The most efficient killing machine are still humans.
They spread aids without even thinking about what they're doing.
>> Anonymous
>>245039

Nope, Mosquitoes are. The diseases they spread like Malaria, Influenza etc. have killed more than anything.
>> Anonymous
OP is a child.
I hate those silly kids obsessed with large carnivorous animals because they change the facts to their likings. These are also the kinds of people who make wiki articles, I'm afraid.
There's no proof Andrewsarchus was a carnivore - our best bet is that it was omnivorous like raccoons and bears.
It's size is also simply unknown. All we have is a skull fragment. The whole 12 feet thing is nothing but speculation. Its bite force is also hypothetical.
An animal shouldn't be interesting only for its size and diet. Damn Jurassic Park and Walking With Beasts encouraged this shit.
>> Anonymous
>>245065
Andrewsarchus is known from more than a skull fragment, a complete skull is known. It tells us that it was superbly adapted to crushing whatever it ate, quite probably bones from carrion, shellfish and possibly sea turtles as well. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it ate quite a bit of vegetable matter too. A hypercarnivore it was not. It may have been the first mammal to adapt to the bear niche, more an opportunist than a predator.
>> Anonymous
>>245065

Well the Chalicothere is definite, and the Rhamphosuchus is only known from a few bones, but it's still awesome.
>> Anonymous
>>245070

So basically a coastal Bear/Tasmanian Devil cross.
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I like the Walking with.. version of the andrewsarchus, but I agree that it was an unlikely to be a predator like a feline or canine. The comparison to a crab-eating raccoon is a good one - a burly long-muzzled raccoon.

Back to OP's request - I like birds (not as pets). Also, pretty much any of the degenerate creatures found in Africa (incestuous lions, dickgirl hyenas, murderous buffalo, etc).
>> Nagi
>>244941

If it was anything like a modern gharial, the dinosaurs wouldn't have to be afraid of shit, because its jaws would've been too weak to fuck with anything even half its size.

Fish, on the other hand, would be terrified.
>> Nagi
>>245065
>Damn Jurassic Park and Walking With Beasts encouraged this shit.

It's been a while, but I seem to recall Walking with Beasts depicting Andrewsarchus as an opportunistic beach comber and scavenger very much in line with what everyone on this board thinks it really was. The only creature I ever remember them going overboard with calling a "vicious super predator" was that hellish pig creature.