The elephant has a prehistoric ancestor called a platybelodon. It’s mouth looks like a cross between a elephants trunk, the bill of a duck, and a platypus.
The elephant has a prehistoric ancestor called a platybelodon. It’s mouth looks like a cross between a elephants trunk, the bill of a duck, and a platypus.
That looks terrifyingly derpy af…if it had an extremely long tongue I’d kill myself.
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Daryl got Larry there.
FormalLibrary1624 on
god that’s terrifying
SquidVices on
How the hell did this thing eat?
99hotdogs on
I really needed the comedic relief from the last photo, thanks for including that ha!
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😈
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angrym00se on
When I was a kid my parents painted this onto my bedroom wall as part of an ancient mammal mural. Instead of dinosaurs, I was into prehistoric mammals.
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This is not an ancestor of today’s elephants, it is a somewhat distant relative
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pizzaking95 on
Awww it looks so fucking stupid
Dredgen_Sword on
You think it could clap by opening and closing its mouth quickly?
Sir-Greggor-III on
I’m confused. Why did it have a trunk then evolve it into a mouth and then back into a trunk again?
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Ah the beautiful and haunting cry of the platybelodon… dyuh-huh
Realizing that this isn’t the weird product of someone’s overactive imagination was quite stressful.
And we’ve reached the edge of what I can believe.
It was a dorkaderm
I think this is very suitable for r/cursedimages
Trilophodon: what if I had a prehensile arm on my face? That seems pretty useful.
Platybelodon: **ALL MOUTH BABY**
Mammoth: okay hang on, I think we had it right the first time
🤓 ahh looking elephant
There must have been tons of weird shit back in the day.
Pachyderp
Grandma had one of those, remember a cold winter where it got my dad’s truck out of the snowstorm.
Looks like it has a harsh British accent.
I do not like this
BuT tHe wOrLd iS oNlY FoYr ThoUSaNd YeARs oLd
https://preview.redd.it/0p5iogviwqud1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7014cc19c1484a6ebfbf03939cab46e87849005
Descendant?
uh duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I…do not like the stork-elephant.
That looks terrifyingly derpy af…if it had an extremely long tongue I’d kill myself.
Daryl got Larry there.
god that’s terrifying
How the hell did this thing eat?
I really needed the comedic relief from the last photo, thanks for including that ha!
😈
When I was a kid my parents painted this onto my bedroom wall as part of an ancient mammal mural. Instead of dinosaurs, I was into prehistoric mammals.
This is not an ancestor of today’s elephants, it is a somewhat distant relative
Awww it looks so fucking stupid
You think it could clap by opening and closing its mouth quickly?
I’m confused. Why did it have a trunk then evolve it into a mouth and then back into a trunk again?
This is both terrifying and goofy