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Description
This is my first attempt of trying to creature a possible soon to be creature.

Name: Hyraxatherium
Means: Hyrax beast
Height:4 feet
Length 7 feet
Weight: 1 ton
Modern Relative: Hyrax
Belong to the order: Paenungulata

Info: 55 million years in the future African will collide with Eurasia forming a mountain range in with the Hyrax future decadence will colonize. Hyrax are the elephants closest living relative and 55 million years into the future they will evolve into a creature very similar to their now long extinct cousins and even further into the future you could say in a way Extinction is not forever.

Very similar to the South American Gomphotherium the Hyraxatherium lives a similar life style expect it lives higher on mountain ranges and has flexible padded feet to help hold itself to the rocky outposts. It feeds on grasses, leaves shrubs and fruits, they are nomadic creatures much like their elephant ancestors.

Evolution: Hyrax's fossils show that before man kind millions of years before Hyrax's grew to the size of oxen but decreased in size than after the Human extinction event, the world was devoid of large animals and this gave the hyrax a evolutionary advantage to take step and fill the niche for a new megafauna.

Hyraxatherium has large tusks used to barking and tipping trees either for striping bark for nutrients and water or tipping it for fruits. Its nose and upper lip has conjoined to form a trunk used as a grasping organ though not as flexible and complex as an elephants trunk. Hyrax gestation period is 7-9 months because the size of its ancestor's large size and now Hyraxatherium has the same gestation time than gives birth to 2-3 pups.
Some species of Hyraxatherium left the forming mountain ranges to feed on the plains of Africa and grew larger even more elephant like.

Description
This is my first attempt of trying to creature a possible soon to be creature.

Name: Hyraxatherium
Means: Hyrax beast
Height:4 feet
Length 7 feet
Weight: 1 ton
Modern Relative: Hyrax
Belong to the order: Paenungulata

Info: 55 million years in the future African will collide with Eurasia forming a mountain range in with the Hyrax future decadence will colonize. Hyrax are the elephants closest living relative and 55 million years into the future they will evolve into a creature very similar to their now long extinct cousins and even further into the future you could say in a way Extinction is not forever.

Very similar to the South American Gomphotherium the Hyraxatherium lives a similar life style expect it lives higher on mountain ranges and has flexible padded feet to help hold itself to the rocky outposts. It feeds on grasses, leaves shrubs and fruits, they are nomadic creatures much like their elephant ancestors.

Evolution: Hyrax's fossils show that before man kind millions of years before Hyrax's grew to the size of oxen but decreased in size than after the Human extinction event, the world was devoid of large animals and this gave the hyrax a evolutionary advantage to take step and fill the niche for a new megafauna.

Hyraxatherium has large tusks used to barking and tipping trees either for striping bark for nutrients and water or tipping it for fruits. Its nose and upper lip has conjoined to form a trunk used as a grasping organ though not as flexible and complex as an elephants trunk. Hyrax gestation period is 7-9 months because the size of its ancestor's large size and now Hyraxatherium has the same gestation time than gives birth to 2-3 pups.
Some species of Hyraxatherium left the forming mountain ranges to feed on the plains of Africa and grew larger even more elephant like.