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Dinohyus hollandi Diorama. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Dinohyus hollandi. "Holland's terrible hog". Entelodontidae. Miocene.
About 19 million years old. Dinohyus is an artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed-mammal), a group that includes bison, camels, goats and pigs. Because this animal had generalized, pig-like teeth, early paleontologists believed it was related to pigs. Because of its size and fierce appearance, the name they gave it was "terrible hog"...or, in Latin, Dinohyus. We now know that it really wasn't a pig!

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