Doug B
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There are 4 distinct species of Sabre Tooth tigers on display and one can stare at them for hours, they are so amazing.
The big one is a very large Archeotherium, nicknamed Hell Pig when first discovered in the 1800's. But it was no pig, rather the largest mammalian land predator to ever walk the earth, the T Rex of mammals. It was built to track and destroy its prey and had no equal. Over millions of years they grew very large with the largest genus nicknamed "Terminator Pig" however they died out, hunted down by pack animals like Dapheonus - Bear Dogs.
Think of it as the size of a Shire horse, with the head of a Hippo, could run like a giraffe, eyesight of a cheetah, smell of a wolf, and teeth of a sabre tooth. Not something you'd want to meet in the wild!
edit - dont believe the AI generated slop on the internet saying these evolved into modern boars and pigs. They did no such thing and have zero relation to anything today, in fact the closest might be a hippo. Back in the day skulls and prehistoric animals were often named after something the skulls resembled to the people of the time, so this was a "pig" and the Dapheonus looked like a cross between a bear and a dog skull, hence "Bear Dog". I am sure the interweb AI is telling people that bears and dogs evolved from them with comic book graphics as well!
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