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Another ancient beef! This species is often called Pelorovis antiquus, but is very different from the 'proper' Pelorovis oldowayensis that I illustrated earlier. It is much more similar to the Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, and I include it in this genus. This huge buffalo had absolutely ridiculously long horns! The horn cores alone span 3 m, which is longer than the complete head-and-body length of the Cape Buffalo! In addition it was somewhat bigger in body as well, and might have reached 2 tons in weight, making it one of the all-time largest artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates). It lived in recent times, going extinct at about 12 000 years ago, or perhaps as recently as 4 000 years ago. There are rock paintings in the Sahara which might have been of these ... but that's not clear and they could be of water buffaloes instead.

Description
Another ancient beef! This species is often called Pelorovis antiquus, but is very different from the 'proper' Pelorovis oldowayensis that I illustrated earlier. It is much more similar to the Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, and I include it in this genus. This huge buffalo had absolutely ridiculously long horns! The horn cores alone span 3 m, which is longer than the complete head-and-body length of the Cape Buffalo! In addition it was somewhat bigger in body as well, and might have reached 2 tons in weight, making it one of the all-time largest artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates). It lived in recent times, going extinct at about 12 000 years ago, or perhaps as recently as 4 000 years ago. There are rock paintings in the Sahara which might have been of these ... but that's not clear and they could be of water buffaloes instead.