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Megafauna Sizesby *Panimated

Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations / Technical

I couldn't find an image with size comparisons of different Cenozoic animals, so I made one myself

So in this chart you'll find one average sized (male):

Homo Sapiens (human)
Indricotherium (Paraceratherium/baluchitherium)
Elasmotherium ("unicorn"..!)
Elotherium (/Entelodon)
Gomphotherium (much like a modern elephant, except it has two extra tusks in the lower jaw)
Panthera Leo Spelaea (You know these! Cave lions

)
Smilodon (saber-toothed cat/tiger.)
Dinofelis (like a smilodon, only smaller.)
Canariomys Bravoi (Tenerife Giant Rat, only existed on tenerife, but added it anyways)
Bos Primigenius (Aurochs, the huge ancestor of domestic cattle.)
Equus Ferus (Tarpan, a European Wild horse)
Crocuta Spelaea (Cave Hyana)
Canis Dirus (Dire wolf... I was tempted to draw glowing green eyes, bangs and tribal tattoos on this one...

)
Megaloceros (Irish Elk)
Ursus Spelaea (Cave bear)
Pinguinus Impennis (Great Auk)

---megafauna, huh? Pretty cool

Many of these animals didn't live at the same time. For example, elotherium died out about 20 million years before the first cave lion appeared. The Aurochs, Tarpan, Great Auk and Giant rat existed up to modern time and was (relative to the history of evolution) only recently extinct.

There is a lot of neat animals from this time, and not many of them are very known, except smilodon and mammoths... (I haven't included the mammoth in this one, but it's about the same size as the Gomphotherium) Elasmotherium and Indricotherium are just amazing animals, it's strange that they aren't more popular...

Anyways, I needed this for The Shadowtainted. I'm considering being a little more loose on the historical correctness of things, and let there be Indricotheriums and Elotheriums wandering about in the lands of Contineo... I like to have things correct, but -gawd- adding these guys would really add to the setting, wouldn't it?

Don't focus on the drawings, I pretty much just shamelessly stole and traced those from some innocent google-users. I'm sorry! I wanted to focus on the sizes, 'kay?

My mac also killed it's own battery, which complicates my work slightly... It's annoying, but it won't stop me!

Okay, you're probably tired of reading now. Good night!

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~rababco Apr 22, 2013

Very informative.

~Astraeli Mar 17, 2013

That was a clever dig on the Dire Wolf - very funny

*Panimated Mar 18, 2013 Student Filmographer

hahah, thank you ;D

~FearedAudacity Feb 1, 2013

Smilodon used, was that S.Gracilis? It looks decidedly small, afterall S.Fatalis was lion-sized an S.Populator was in between Tiger-and-Polar Bear in size.

*Panimated Feb 2, 2013 Student Filmographer

Ahh, I can't remember.. I think I was looking at fatalis. You might be right, it is a bit small... I based it on shoulder-height, and they are supposed to be about as tall as siberian tigers, which is.. 110-120 cm high? I'm not sure what sources I used, but yeah, if it's a fatalis, it's probably missing 10-20 cm, from the looks of it. Sorry about that! Well spotted