US EditionCoastal North Carolina's fossil record reveals giant 'hell pigs'
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Coastal North Carolina's fossil record reveals giant 'hell pigs'
In this N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences photo, paleontologist Sean Moran holds the cast of a single entelodont tooth, colloquially known as the “hell pig molar.” With massive canines that could gore and then gnash its prey, prehistoric hell pigs were fierce predators before they went extinct 20 million years ago. The four-hooved entelodonts, the scientific name for the land mammal that looked like a giant hippo-pig hybrid, had a skull half the s…
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