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Published: 2010-07-27 12:30:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 21939; Favourites: 150; Downloads: 0
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Mammuthus "sungari" - in reality, probably just Chinese M. trogontherii. Not the biggest mammoth, because for M. trogontherii heght 5-5,2 m is normal.Related content
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Already i had commented about it,now only i noted that.I mean, you mentioned as -- M. trogontherii heght 5-5,2 m is normal.Are you sure ? That is 16 feet. Sure it will be cool.But in most sites they use to mention as M. trogontherii is only 13 feet tall and once again the same 10 tonnes.That makes no sense to call this Mammoth as the largest since MColumbi and M Meridonalis also 13 feet and 10 tonnes.M. trogontherii would be 12 tonnes or more and averaged atleast 15 feet tall.
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That's something I don't get either. Why say that the Steppe Mammoth is the largest if it only equaled the Columbian and Southern Mammoths in size?
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M. trogontherii has a average height of 4.5 m.I think no elephant known so far averages 5 m.
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Ага, то есть все-таки версия на тему трогонотериевого слона. Но вообще, как я понимаю, представления о количестве видов ископаемых слонов расходятся меж специалистами в разы.
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Beautiful.
I love the Russian text in the background. Gives me that sense of "I'm bored with reading - I'm gonna start sketching"
What makes you decide "I'm going to paint out a Mammuthus sungari today"?
Do you have a list of creatures you rattle off one at a time?
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I've made a preliminary sketch on another side of old papers (it was a works of my students), for economy - and next step is drawing in GIMP and Photoshop. Now, in summer I have some time to realise my old sketches - so, one o them was M. sungari!
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So is it one of these gigantic Eurasian mammoths or the indricothere the largest land synapsid of all time?
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It's fairly hard to say. Professor Claude Guérin has examined the bones of several indricotheres and deinotheres that indicate staggeringly massive animals. 30 and 25 tons respectively. Only Elephantidae has come close with several different species across genera reaching the 10 to 15 ton mark.
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I think, indricotheres was bigger, but mammoths was heavier.
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I would love to see a Huge elephant be found someday which will be as tall as the Indricotherium and weigh more.That will make an Elephant as the largest land mammal ever.
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I like the way you have done the hair. Instead of simply drawing short lines on top of each other, it really seems to "be there".
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There's been so much wiki-drama on this critter's wikipedia entry.
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It's a real animal. I've seen it name between others components of fauna in English abstract of some Chinese article about Pleistocene climate. But it was, probably, not a separate species.
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I don't doubt that it's real, but, I agree that it's probably just a desert-dwelling variant of M. trogonotheri.
It's just that one editor at Wikipedia is very defensive about that.
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