Kubanochoerus

KUBANOCHOERUS, from the new video(www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFap...) I made to cover the Neogene Period. #kubanochoerus #neogene #paleoart #unicorn

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is kubanochoerus, a suid from miocene eurasia and africa. weighing up to 500kg, kubanochoerus is notable for both its large size and the prominent, unicorn-esque horn on its forehead, accompanied by two smaller brow horns
(art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social)

Speaking of unicorns! Did you know there is an extinct species of pig where the males have a single horn? Say hi to Kubanochoerus!

Kubanochoerus, a giant "unicorn pig" from the Miocene of Eurasia and Africa. Its height was 1 meter at the shoulder, and it weighed up to 500 kg. Kubanochoerus lived in open woodlands and savannah.

Want some unicorn bacon?

Kubanochoerus gigas.

So it's not a dinosaur but it is an extinct creature and I wanna talk about it.

They existed around 15.9 to 7.3 million years ago.

They are apart of the Suidae family, meaning they are related to pigs.

So what makes these ancient pigs so cool?

👇👇

now...since I'm using kubanochoerus, an ancestor of the modern boars, as my main inspo...do you give him 3 pairs of tits?

(yes of course, the question's rhetorical)

It's been hypothesized by some scientists that the males would have used them to joust each other with when competing for mates.

These guys also had much longer legs than modern day pigs, which would have helped them travel longer distances for food.

So there ya go.

The ancient uniboarn 🦄🐗

I thought I knew horned animals reasonably well, but how come it took until *today* for me to learn about Kubanochoerus? A giant horned pig from the Miocene is pretty metal, and that's saying something given that the Miocene already has a ton of metal mammals!

Hell pig is cool and shit but have you heard of kubanochoerus? UwU

Oh there’s a lot.
- Protoceratids
- Dromomerycids
- pre-Pleistocene Antilocaprids
- Choerolophodon
- pre-Pleistocene pigs/peccaries, like Skinnerhyus & Kubanochoerus
- Anthracotheres
- Oreodonts
- Floridatragulus
- Pseudaelurus-grade cats (first Felids to reach North America)
- big civets/mustelids

Kubanochoerus.

They were 1,100lb boars that had triceratops horns growing out of their forehead.

You’d need to bring it down with heavy fire though.

Preferably from orbit.

btw those first three guys are based on extinct animals, pig is andrewsarchus + kubanochoerus, the dog is sort based on hesperocyon but i mean, its kinda just a generic dog, bird is based on gastornis (and also specifically a crested wood partridge for some reason but with less silly hair)

I just realized how closely babirusa resemble the members of Listrodontinae, an exclusively Miocene subfamily of Suidae. They had long legs and long, narrow snouts. Their members included Megalochoerus, the largest pig of of all time, and actual unicorn Kubanochoerus.

There used to be unicorn pigs, kubanochoerus.