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BrandonScottPilcher — Deinotherium bozasi
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Published: 2019-09-23 13:24:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 4017; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 8
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A bull Deinotherium bozasi, a distant relative of the elephant, roams the rainforests of Africa, equipped with two downward-curving tusks on its lower jaw. This African species of the Deinotherium genus is known to have lived between 7.3 million and 781,000 years ago, which would have made it a contemporary of the early hominin apes that would evolve into human beings. The two tusks on its lower jaw might have helped it strip down bark or branches for feeding.Related content
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That is one really good Deinotherium and this is my least favourite of the bunch.
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I thought they had smaller ears like the ones in the books or walking with beasts?
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I gave it big ears because it would have lived in the hot climate of Neogene Africa, and modern African elephants' larger ears help keep them cool in that environment. I have no idea why paleoartists often depict prehistoric proboscideans in general as having smaller ears like Asian elephants. Mammoths are known to have had smaller ears, but that's believed to be an adaptation to the colder conditions of Ice Age Eurasia.
Source of interest:
www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/wh…
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