#hippidion

[renumuro]

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 10/01/2026

results of this week's #Paleostream flocking

this week we sketched Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, Njalila, and Hippidion

my ~month-long artblock decided to go away halfway through stream, i think this year ill stop holding myself to such a high standard and see what happens

[the-dragon-girl-27]

flocking time! yeah its been a while since i've been able to participate in one (and probably will be a while before i can do another cuz of my schedule aaaaa)

this week we drew Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, Njalila, and Hippidion

bonus:

yes I did in fact reference Rice Shower while picking out colors for this

[tsaagan]

Animatronic Hippidion (Hippidion principale) manufactured by Dino Don, Inc. at Heureka's Jääkauden jättiläiset/ Giants of the Ice Age exhibit

[veloci-raptor]

This Flocking Together was 75% gorgonopsids, and 25% horse (#104)

Dinogorgon/Viatkogorgon

Njalila/Hippidion

[xanananas]

Sketch of the South American browsing horse Hippidion principale

[my-friend-meowth]

Lets go see ice age mammals! 🦣

Villamammutti (Mammuthus primigenius) Woolly mammoth

Jääkarhu (Ursus maritimus) Polar bear

Villasarvikuono (Coelodonta antiquitatis) Woolly rhinoceros

Luolaleijona (Panthera spelaea) Cave lion

Mastodontti (Mammut pacificum) Mastodon

Tylppäkuonokarhu (Arctodus simus) Giant short-faced bear

Hirviösusi (Aenocyon dirus) Dire wolf

Jättiläislaiskiainen (Megatherium americanum) Megatherium

Gompoteeri (Notiomastodon platensis) Gomphothere

Macrauchenia (Macrauchenia patachonica) Macrauchenia

Hippidion (Hippidion principale) Hippidion

Sapelihammaskissa (Smilodon populator) Smilodon

Heureka Tiedepuisto 1 01300 Vantaa

[danbensen]

The Little Horse with a Big Nose by Eurwentala

I have a thing with fossil horses at the moment. Hippidion principale, the extinct South American equid with a remarkable nose. The bony anatomy of the snout was different from all other mammals I know, with retracted sides but a long, thin bony spike on the top. It's not technically a trunk, like the noses of saiga antelopes, mooses, or tapirs, but was perhaps functionally somewhat similar. Hippidion was widely distributed in South America and only went extinct about 8000 years ago, after coexisting with people for a few millenia. It's so recent, ancient dna analyses have been made. It turns out Hippidion was the last representative of an old evolutionary branch outside all living equids. It's a shame it survived so late just to go extinct before modern times. There's some evidence that people hunted and ate these weird little horses.