#hell pigs

[opabinia--regalis]

the complete transition from basal whippomorphs to ambulocetids to basilosaurids to modern whales!

[typhlonectes]

The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs" 

Despite the name, we don’t know where the so-called “hell pigs” belong in the mammalian family tree. They walked on hooves, like pigs do, but had longer legs, almost like deer. They had hunched backs, a bit like rhinos or bison. But as is often, if not always, the case, there is some evolutionary method to this anatomical madness.

Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the excellent Entelodont illustrations!

Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com

 via: PBS Eons

[ragingbullmode]

hell pig skulls !

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[lovingexotics]

Hell Pig Daeodon shoshonensis Source: Here

[vigilantsycamore]

The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs" | PBS Eons

[tapacamino]

Reading about entelodonts and simultaneously thinking "cool" and "aw hell no" because they look like that creepy mutated bear from the movie Annihilation.

[bunnyflab]

Hell Fuckin Yeah

[opabinia--regalis]

early whales and their closest relatives! i'll get to showing the dorudon > odontocetes and mysticetes transition next, can only fit so much on one page