A side-effect of a dodgy memory

[james_davis_nicoll]

I keep re-discovering entelodonts AKA "Hell Pigs", a pig-like apex predator that went extinct about 16 million years ago.

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[(Anonymous)]

Are you thinking of ambulocetus?

[Pix & stuff, here: http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/ ]

Or maybe this critter: http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2009/02/04/maiacetus-innus/ ?

But if you go back far enough, they aren't very alarming at all:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7150627.stm

FWIIW,

TSM_in_TethysToronto