GRAPHIC PREHISTORIC ANIMALS GIANT HUNTER ANDREWSARCHUS ILLUSTRATED BY ALESSANDRO POLUZZI COLORED BY OLIVER WEST Smart Apple Media
a WHAT IS A GIANT HUNTERN ANDREWSARCHUS MEANS ANDREW's RULER AndrewSarchus lived around 45 million to 35 million years ago during the Eocene period Fossils of its skeleton have been found in Mongolia Asia see page 22 ii It had a huge A skull with a long narrow muzzle i It probably N hunted like a giant wolf i Its eyes were set low down on its S face compared with other predators ANDREWSARCHUS MONGOLIENSIS FROM MONGOLA WOULD HAVE ii It might have had A hooves instead of claws for toes BEEN AT LEAST 6 FEET 1 8 M TALL 11 FEET 3 4 M LONG AND PROBABLY WEIGHED ABOUT 2 200 POUNDS 1 000 KG it It could have A scavenged and rooted around like a giant pig This would be Andrewsarchus and
s S ANIMAL FACTS nfortunately only the skull and a handful of small bones have been found Figuring out exactly what type of creature MHA Andrewsarchus was has puzzled scientists for years Andrewsarchus is named after Roy Chapman Andrews an explorer for the American Museum of Natural History who led the expedition that discovered fossils in inner Mongolia in the 1920s n drews and his team were exploring the Gobi Andrewsarchus's teeth show it was a meat eater Desert an area that 40 million years earlier would have formed n drewsarchus s skull the northern shore of the long shares traits with two other vanished Tethys Ocean Superb prehistoric mammals an early skull of a gigantic beast was how type of hoofed wolf called Andrews described the find and at Mesonyx and the tooth snouted nearly three feet 1 m long it is piglike Entelodon If either of these one of the largest meat eating animals had been as big as mammal skulls ever found Andrewsarchus it would have been a top predator Entelodon Mesonyx
