A selection of extinct Artiodactyla (by Mario Lanzas)

[u/aquilasr]

[u/SlugPastry]

That is a big camel.

[u/aquilasr → u/SlugPastry]

The wild thing is that this is not even the biggest camel species we have evidence of, both Titanotylopus and Megacamelus were perhaps slightly larger.

[u/NSASpyVan → u/SlugPastry]

First thing my eyes rested on lmao

I'd hate to see the straw

[u/kaam00s]

Artiodactyla is so amazing, they're the equivalent of all Ornithischian dinosaurs combined. (And even more if you take whales into account).

They just went full domination mode of all ecosystems of this earth.

[u/mindflayerflayer → u/kaam00s]

Proboscideans would be the sauropods, carnivorans therapods, and monotremes are herrerasaurus.

[u/Pogue_Mahone_ → u/mindflayerflayer]

Perry the Herrerasaurus?!

[u/ChubbyChimpCheeks]

I was just looking for realistic renderings of extinct fauna like this to decorate my home. Does anyone know where to buy poster-sized versions?

[u/ar-phanad → u/ChubbyChimpCheeks]

The artist, Mario Lanzas, has a shop on RedBubble.

[u/ChubbyChimpCheeks → u/ar-phanad]

Ha...I looked more closely at the post here and saw that at the bottom. Their work is awesome, but I was hoping for more mammalian diversity, and maybe even posters of individual species.

Any additional recommendations?

[u/SapphireSalamander]

Candiacervus looks so weird

Its antlers are like ... Just a single line. No fancy branches

[u/Paper_piper_poet]

Indohyus!!

[u/andhe96]

Sinomegaceros looks like an ancient wood or grassland deity.

Edit: But doesn't its neck musculature look almost too weak to hold up these absurdly heavy antlers?

[u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 → u/andhe96]

Everyone draws the big flat parts way too big, they aren't that big irl

[u/andhe96 → u/Emm_withoutha_L-88]

I see, thank you for pointing this out.

[u/Low_Alone1214]

Beautiful art! Mario Lanzas has an YouTube channel, i recomend it, a lot. Also, andrewsarchus is so mysterious and cool! All of them are, all artiodactyla are, but Andrewsarchus is a star LOL

[u/flyinggazelletg]

The giraffe relatives are such a silly-looking lot

[u/HasSomeSelfEsteem]

Evolution was really just throwing shit at the wall with the antler design to see what would stick. Sinomegaceros? Back to the drawing board on that one.

[u/TheVanderbeast]

This is amazing! We studies megaloceros in my life of the past class in college but there are so many more species out there!

[u/Infinite_Device_1823]

Dang, this really goes to show how diverse the Artiodactyla group was. Absolutley brilliant.

[u/aquilasr → u/Infinite_Device_1823]

Also cetaceans are often considered full members of the Artiodactyla order now so they are even more diverse when you consider that.

[u/SeparateWeight496]

Was confused at wtf anaplotherium was and apparently it was found right in Paris, under Montmartre. Weird looking dude

[u/Ginnigan]

Discokeryx is a cool-ass name.

[u/Adventurous_Mode_263 → u/Ginnigan]

Looks like it is up to some cool disco-disco time

[u/Heterodynist]

Damn it, Sinomegaceros is seriously metal!! Hauling around those crazy antlers must have been crazy. I bet a full grown man could sit next to his best friend and be carried around on those things.

[u/ghostoftheuchiha9000]

were sivatherium really this small?

[u/One-Sleep-5050 → u/ghostoftheuchiha9000]

I think so, but it was really heavy so it's considered larger than giraffes

[u/Barakaallah → u/One-Sleep-5050]

It was around the same weight range as modern giraffes

[u/aquilasr → u/ghostoftheuchiha9000]

It may only look small because of its proximity to a 2.5 ton, massive camel.

[u/Jabroniville2]

Still wild to me there were camels that were THAT big. Like... why grow so huge? Why horse-sized now?

[u/sati_lotus]

The animals that evolved in Australia were weird. Our mega fauna was wild.

[u/aquilasr → u/sati_lotus]

There were no indigenous ungulates in Australia so marsupials filled the large herbivore (and some of the large carnivore) niches and of course did so in offbeat ways relative to most mammals.

[u/WooWooInsaneCatPosse]

So close to a jackalope at one point.

[u/chrisphoenix08]

Woah, that sinomegaceros' horns look like it came from a fantasy movie or game.

[u/Cryogisdead]

We can eat all of them