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My last weird and awesome skull post was really popular, so I decided to do one about something else I’m excessively interested in: Megafauna! This isn’t at all a comprehensive list of the coolest ones, not by a long shot, so you should definitely look up some of the BBC docs on Youtube or google ones from your continent!

The cave bear! (N. America)

‘Hell Pigs’ (N. America) Actually entelodonts, unrelated to pigs at all and more closely tied to hippos and cetaceans! Dat sagittal crest amirite

The Stag Moose  @allosauroid brought to my attention that this is the skull of the Irish elk, Megaloceros, not a stag moose! (Eurasia) Which stood 6 foot at the shoulder/withers

Platybelodon (widespread) Google artist renditions of these guys, you won’t be disappointed

Barbourofelis! (N. America) Like a smaller smilodon, with much cooler teeth. Look at those incisors!

Megatherium (S. America) Primitive sloths the size of elephants!

Titanus Walleri (N. America) Other continents had equally large if not larger ‘terror birds’

Paraceratherium (Eurasia) One of the largest terrestrial mammals we’ve ever discovered. It was actually a species of hornless rhino! Google artist recs of these guys, too

Diprotodon (Australia) The largest known marsupial, which was the size of a hippopotamus and stood 6 feet tall

the wide range of movement in a parrots upper mandible. typically, a birds upper beak isn’t movable and is fused to the cranium through bone and/or muscle. in parrots, the various bones that make up the upper palette and mandible have adapted to allow the beak to move alongside the lower jaw opening, as an adaption for manipulating objects and eating tougher foods.

Liger Skull and canine compared to a Tigon skull.

Replica Tigon Skull Preorder

This is a PREORDER for a resin replica cast from a real Tigon (male tiger x female lioness) skull. The cast will not have nasal turbinates. This is one of the only tigon skull casts available online, and I believe it is the largest at roughly 13″ x 9″. This skull has quite a lot going on:

It has very wide zygomatic arches with an elongated snout

It is not perfectly symmetrical! It curves very…