In the Mongolian steppe (including Outer Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia), 55-35 million years ago, the Eocene once inhabited a beast that was several times more ferocious than the saber-toothed tiger, and its name was very striking at first hearing - the schizophrenic beast.
The Schizophate is a famous land carnivorous beast in prehistory, and it is also the head of the "Old Tertiary Four", which naturally became the king of the Mongolian steppe.
01 The head is like a brown bear, and the body is like a wolf
Taxonomically , the schizophrens belong to the family Oxmanidae under the order Carnithorns , and the carnivorous order and carnivorous order belong to the order Lauya.
Fossils of schizoites were found in the Mongolian Gobi, when only one complete bone and mandible were found. According to the analysis of the fossils excavated by scientists, the schizophren is huge, with a shoulder height of about 180-210 cm, a body length of 3-5 meters, a head and tail length of 4-6 meters, and a maximum weight of 1000 kg.
The entire body of the splinter beast looked very much like a wolf, and even the hairs looked very similar. But what is very interesting is that their heads look like brown bears, and they drag a large tail like a raccoon behind them, like a bear with a long tail on its head.
However, compared to brown bears, the head of the schizophren is larger and heavier, and the largest schizophren skull is about 55 cm long, which should be the largest in the hyena family. Judging from the fossil skulls of schizophrens, they have shortened the snout and increased width of the skull like the father cat, the face is wide, and the vision is good.
02 The double jaw is strong, and the incisors and canine teeth are sharp, which can easily bite the bones of prey
Their huge jaws are heavy and very powerful, more terrifying than saber-toothed tigers, and they can easily crush the bones of their prey without effort when devouring animal carcasses.
The mouth has thick and sharp incisors and canine teeth, the upper incisors are quite large, while the lower incisors are relatively short, the upper and lower canine teeth are short and strong, and the anterior molars are equally thick. Very sharp teeth have a strong ability to bite and chew, can tear the thick skin of large prey, and even bite bones like hyenas.
Coupled with two pairs of long, sharp claws, they are used to open the stomach like a machete.
Of course, the skin of the rift beast is quite thick, and its hair is like a steel needle, and its roots are erect, and even the teeth of a saber-toothed tiger are difficult to bite the skin of the cracked meat beast.
03 Hunt some slow large animals, like to tear them up and eat them
Fossilized skeletal skeletals show that the Schizophren is indeed a very ferocious beast. Schizophrens are often active in the Mongolian plateau, have strong hardiness, amazing endurance, and can circle with prey for a long time without getting tired.
If there were still splinter beasts on the earth, it is estimated that there would be no such animals as lions, tigers and leopards.
In terms of size, the Schizophren was the top predator living in the Eocene Mongolia region, and liked to tear up the prey it caught and eat it. They are similar to modern brown bears and are omnivorous, but they rarely eat plants, they mainly hunt slow large animals, such as rhinos, thunder beasts and clawed hoofs, can kill vegetarian animals as large as modern Asian elephants alone, and sometimes easily rob other predators of prey by virtue of their size.
epilogue
Although the size of the schizophren is very large, and it has some advantages in hunting, it will have many shortcomings in itself. First, its body is huge and bloated, resulting in a relatively large amount of food; It is that it is not good at running, it is very slow and clumsy to move, and it is not conducive to concealment, and the third is coupled with its metatarsal walking method, once the rift beast can not find food, it is likely to face death.
All of this led to the disappearance of the Schizophrenic from the Earth 35 million years ago in the Mizhomiene.