Real life leucrotta?

[Mikaze]

Or VAMPIRE DEER?

srsly though, would NOT want to be a pre-frozen caveman lawyer with one of these running across the road in front of my foot-powered car.

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Yeah, some of the primitive cervid families are really weird. Fun fact: back when the genus Micromeryx first grew to prominence, elongated rear-curving maxillary canine teeth seemed to be a recurring theme among mammals of the time. You can see this feature in just about every branch, including dinoceratids, felines, and marsupial metatherians, as well as cervids.

Take a look at one of the few surviving species of moschid: the musk deer. F#*~ing weird.

And as far as the leucrotta goes...

[Mikaze]

Hehe, I actually came across that while reading up on the musk deer(while reading up on musk(while researching Pathfinder harpies of all things)).

And I miss the catoblepa...I mean...dinoceratids too. ;)

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Mikaze wrote:

Hehe, I actually came across that while reading up on the musk deer(while reading up on musk(while researching Pathfinder harpies of all things)).

And I miss the catoblepa...I mean...dinoceratids too. ;)

Evolutionary biology is a wonderful thing.

[Velcro Zipper]

A leucrotta with the advanced template perhaps?

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Velcro Zipper wrote:

A leucrotta with the advanced template perhaps?

I remember them actually being in one 3.5 book or another. Maybe Pathfinder. I can't remember. In any case, they should start showing up in Pathfinder more than they possibly already have.

As an aside, I really dug that article. I've always wondered why so many different lineages were all lumped into that one group, and now I know it's just because some paleontologists are lazy. Also, it's good to see that people are finally getting the memo that cetaceans are not descended from mesonychids.