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Continuing with the ancient antilocaprids (pronghorns)! This is good old Cosoryx furcatus, the fork-headed pronghorn. Like Merycodus, it had simple branched 'horns', that started out covered in skin which rubbed off to expose the bone. They were not shed the way deer's antlers are. Antilocaprids are not closely related to deer or to antelopes ... instead, their closest modern relatives are giraffes and okapis! At a time they were almost as diverse in North America as antelopes are in Africa today. I am going to feature lots of them here! Cosoryx lived from about 16 million years ago until about 9 million years ago. Its facial pattern of course comes from my own imagination. Pencil drawing, coloured with Photoshop.

Description
Continuing with the ancient antilocaprids (pronghorns)! This is good old Cosoryx furcatus, the fork-headed pronghorn. Like Merycodus, it had simple branched 'horns', that started out covered in skin which rubbed off to expose the bone. They were not shed the way deer's antlers are. Antilocaprids are not closely related to deer or to antelopes ... instead, their closest modern relatives are giraffes and okapis! At a time they were almost as diverse in North America as antelopes are in Africa today. I am going to feature lots of them here! Cosoryx lived from about 16 million years ago until about 9 million years ago. Its facial pattern of course comes from my own imagination. Pencil drawing, coloured with Photoshop.