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SomeKindaSpy In reply to raptorman123 [2013-05-25 03:24:48 +0000 UTC]

You've obviously never heard of Andrewsarchus: large quadrupedal carnivore related to sheep.

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raptorman123 In reply to SomeKindaSpy [2013-05-25 03:42:15 +0000 UTC]

I know what Andrewsarchus is. It was featured in the second episode of "Walking with Prehistoric Beasts". Also, it was actually closer to the ancestors of whales.

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SomeKindaSpy In reply to raptorman123 [2013-05-25 04:11:48 +0000 UTC]

That's where I heard of Andrewsarchus. I don't remember them saying it was in anyway related to whales, because Andrewsarchus had hooves.

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TamaraHenson In reply to SomeKindaSpy [2013-10-29 19:43:52 +0000 UTC]

Yep the closest relatives of Andrewsarchus were whales, Entelodonts ('pigs from hell'), and hippos. It was not related to sheep other than both being in the the clade Cetartiodactyla. People like to compare it to sheep because of the 'wolf in sheep's clothing' cliche.

Tet zoo version 3 once had a three part article on this but it Scientific America is a sucky blog system and has delited a lot of Darren's older posts. The most recent is this one...

blogs.scientificamerican.com/t…

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SomeKindaSpy In reply to TamaraHenson [2013-10-30 04:05:15 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. Thank you.

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TamaraHenson In reply to TamaraHenson [2013-10-29 19:47:21 +0000 UTC]

No wait I found them...

scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoolo…

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