Tri-Fanged Titan: Ancient African Monster Unearthed, Once Ruled the Prehistoric Realm!
Ever wonder what lunacy roamed the earth before we did? Picture this: A beast so massive, it might have dwarfed your grandma’s station wagon, and its teeth? Yeah, they were the size of your average supermarket banana. Imagine confronting something like that at a rest stop instead of a vending machine!
Now, let’s chew on that while we dive into the tale of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a fearsome, toothy titan unearthed from the annals of prehistory. It’s a discovery that makes you grateful dinner doesn’t come with a side of saurian-sized hunting horror anymore.
The jaw-dropping find was quite literally stumbled upon by paleontologist Matt Borths while rummaging through drawers at the Nairobi National Museum. It’s somewhat poetic, really, that such an epic relic was just chilling in a drawer, like old cutlery forgotten in your kitchen.
Isn’t it tantalising to think that one drawer snatched from oblivion could reveal not just new teeth to science, but also nudge our understanding of ancient African savannahs and the predator populations that thrived there?
So, buckle up as we embark on this outrageous journey back to when apex predators had a name, a size, and teeth that could be the plotline of a B-movie or the nightmare fuel for a late-night internet dive…LEARN MORE
It was the size of a car and its teeth were the size of bananas.
Mauricio Anton/National GeographicSimbakubwa kutokaafrika
New discoveries are sometimes simply a matter of fate. That’s what happened when paleontologist Matt Borths serendipitously came across the fossils of Africa’s largest carnivorous mammal, one that walked the Earth some 23 million years ago.
According to National Geographic, Borths found the animal relics in the drawers of the fossil collection at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya. He was working on his dissertation on hyaenodonts, a group of extinct mammals named for their resemblance to modern-day hyenas (though they are not actually related to hyenas).
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