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Panimated โ Megafauna Sizes
Published: 2011-11-23 03:32:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 52388; Favourites: 755; Downloads: 4549
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I couldn't find an image with size comparisons of different Cenozoic animals, so I made one myself
So in this chart you'll find one average sized (male):
Homo Sapiens (human)
Indricotherium (Paraceratherium/baluchitherium)
Elasmotherium ("unicorn"..!)
Elotherium (/Entelodon)
Gomphotherium (much like a modern elephant, except it has two extra tusks in the lower jaw)
Panthera Leo Spelaea (You know these! Cave lions
)Smilodon (saber-toothed cat/tiger.)
Dinofelis (like a smilodon, only smaller.)
Canariomys Bravoi (Tenerife Giant Rat, only existed on tenerife, but added it anyways)
Bos Primigenius (Aurochs, the huge ancestor of domestic cattle.)
Equus Ferus (Tarpan, a European Wild horse)
Crocuta Spelaea (Cave Hyana)
Canis Dirus (Dire wolf... I was tempted to draw glowing green eyes, bangs and tribal tattoos on this one...
)Megaloceros (Irish Elk)
Ursus Spelaea (Cave bear)
Pinguinus Impennis (Great Auk)
---megafauna, huh? Pretty cool
Many of these animals didn't live at the same time. For example, elotherium died out about 20 million years before the first cave lion appeared. The Aurochs, Tarpan, Great Auk and Giant rat existed up to modern time and was (relative to the history of evolution) only recently extinct.
There is a lot of neat animals from this time, and not many of them are very known, except smilodon and mammoths... (I haven't included the mammoth in this one, but it's about the same size as the Gomphotherium) Elasmotherium and Indricotherium are just amazing animals, it's strange that they aren't more popular...
Anyways, I needed this for The Shadowtainted. I'm considering being a little more loose on the historical correctness of things, and let there be Indricotheriums and Elotheriums wandering about in the lands of Contineo... I like to have things correct, but -gawd- adding these guys would really add to the setting, wouldn't it?
Don't focus on the drawings, I pretty much just shamelessly stole and traced those from some innocent google-users. I'm sorry! I wanted to focus on the sizes, 'kay?
My mac also killed it's own battery, which complicates my work slightly... It's annoying, but it won't stop me!
Okay, you're probably tired of reading now. Good night!
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Dang, Dire wolves are smaller than I thought, I'm pretty sure some dogs grow to that height.
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I need this. Not sure why but I know I need it. Thanks!ย
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Can you imagine if any of these beasts were still around?
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this is pretty cool
i dont really focus much on the mega creatures after the dinosaurs but i feel like i should to become a paleontologist
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Have you herd ofย Andrewsarchus mongoliensis?
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I have. Truly a fascinating specimen.
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What's bigger Panthera leo Spelaea or Panthera leo atrox?
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I'm pretty sure Panthera Leo Atrox is the biggest, but they were both huge
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That was a clever dig on the Dire Wolf - very funny
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Smilodon used, was that S.Gracilis? It looks decidedly small, afterall S.Fatalis was lion-sized an S.Populator was in between Tiger-and-Polar Bear in size.
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Ahh, I can't remember.. I think I was looking at fatalis. You might be right, it is a bit small... I based it on shoulder-height, and they are supposed to be about as tall as siberian tigers, which is.. 110-120 cm high? I'm not sure what sources I used, but yeah, if it's a fatalis, it's probably missing 10-20 cm, from the looks of it. Sorry about that! Well spotted
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No worries man, it's cool. Very interesting to see such beasts in a single comparison. Love it!
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Oh, love it! Megaloceros is my absolute favourite (always) but they are all nice. Very well done!
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I love giant creatures, whether they're extinct or not....i love it even more when i have a reference to how big they are!!!!!
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OMG thank you!!!!! i'm reading the earth's children series for the 27th time and i love having a size reference!!!!!!!!!!!
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No problem, I'm glad it's helpful!
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:I im making a Ice age comic too and i got inspired by a museum and now most of animal i want to put it is the same like you.....(also not all lol xD)
But dont give me as "stolen" idea, no you can ask many friend of me, i started this in Novembre too and im searching Information right now too.
But i though firstly your comic is a lion comic and im a bit confusend now sorry. is also a ice age comic too?
PS: good Size sheet
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Hahah, don't worry, I know a bunch of artists who have their stories set in the ice-age
Yeah, the story is about lions... Cave lions, to be exact. In the ice age, surrounded by pleistocene animals and landscape.
Thank you
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lol same 
Ooh yeah i watched your sketchvideo on youtube, what i want to say is: its really good so far
Please keep your comic and your work
Good luck with your comic <3
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Oh my, I`ve always wanted to make one of these! This is very nice!
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But... isn't leo spelea too big? They had something like 120cm maybe 130 at shoulders, at this comparison to human it looks like it's about 150-160cm tall at shoulders (because lion shoulders is similiar to human shoulders in height) O.O ... BUT when you compare to squares, which every is 100cmx100cm, it looks 130-140cm O.o. And the human looks like 183... a 160cm tall girl is only few centimetres over a 183 man shoulders... WTH
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No problem! That may be, I was following a length-comparison, where one source said it was 25% heavier than an african lion (ca 3m, so a leo spelaea would be approx. 3.20, which should be about right on this chart). I wouldn't say human and leo spelaea have equal shoulder-height, at least 10 cm is mane 
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Hah.Maybe x). I think Smilodon looks to small in comparison to leo... but I don't know - is there Smilodon populator, or fatalis? XD
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Oh I forgot to write that! I think it's a fatalis
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wow.. that big one.. ois really huge compared to us tiny humans xD
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It's enormous! ^^ amazing animals
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haha so i see very fascinatimg indeed ;D
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Indricotherium is so freaking huge D: What an incredible animal. Very nice work on the chart! I didn't know cave hyenas existed until now!
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I know! It's like a dinosaur
Did I say cave hyena? I think they went extinct about when the ice-age ended, but I'm not sure
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eeeeeee your icon is so cute!
And you're right about the cave hyena extinction (according to wikipedia, anyway
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Pffeehee, thank you!
If wikipedia says so it must be true...
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Neat, thanks! Since I'm reading Earth's Children at the moment, this sheet gives me a wonderful impression
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No problem^^ I've been thinking about reading that myself
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Jea, go ahead! It really has a lot of boring parts (talking about plants and animals and landscapes), also a lot of repetitions (Oh, there's a wolf! Hey, look at that wolf! Is that a wolf! What's the wolf doing there?...), and the last book seems to be very disappointing (I think the author just wanted to finish it without ending the story by closing all the loose ends that came up during the story) - but nevertheless it is totally worth it. I still love reading it (one of my favorite english-practisces actually, I bought the (back then) whole set for my flight back home *sniff* Memories...
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oh I see xD It sound pretty interesting though, not many books are written in that setting
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