The Saola

Animal:  Saola
Overshadowed by: deer and antelope
Scientific name:  pseudoryx nghetinhensis
Classification:  mammal
Diet:  spleen wart, hamalomena, sxerculiaceae, and fig leaves
Predators:  tigers, leopards, and dholes
Endangered status:  critically endangered, they may be extinct by next year
Habitat:  Dense forests between Laos and Vietnam
Fun facts:  The saola was discovered in 1992.  It is considered the greatest animal find of recent times.  It was the first new mammal discovery in fifty years.

World Pangolin Day

African Wild Dogs

Over shadowed by: Lions
Scientific name: Lycon Pictus
Classification: mammal
Endangered Status: endangered
Size: 141 cm and 18 to 39 km
AKA: Hunting dogs, painted wolfs, and A.W.D.s
Habitat: African savanna, and forests
Diet: Wildebeest, Impala, other antelope, zebra, warthogs, and aardvarks
Predators: lions and hyenas
Closest relatives: other members of the K-9 family, such as the maned wolf, the gray wolf, dogs, red wolfs, fennec foxes, dingoes, coyotes, hyenas, and jackals.
Fun facts: 9 out of 10 African wild dog hunts end in a kill, will eat prey before fully dead, only 6600 left in wild, can run up to 35 miles per hour for hours at a time, and A.W.D.s have been endangered for 20 years

Thylacine

Dear followers,
This is the last  post of prehistoric mammal month. There are so many more animals I would like to blog about but sadly there is not enough time. So I hope you enjoy this post. Presenting, my personal favorite, the Tasmanian tiger (a.k.a Tasmanian wolf or Thylacine).

Diet: kangaroos, small rodents, birds, and other marsupials.
Became extinct on: September, 11, 1936
Weight: 66 lbs
Lived in: Australia
Fun fact: The Tasmanian tiger was the largest modern carnivorous marsupial.

Glyptadons

Diet: Herbs
Lived until: the beginning of human settlement
Weight: 1 ton
Length: 10 feet
Lived in: the Americas
Fun facts: Name means carved tooth, and early humans used shells as shelter.

Megatherium sloths

Diet: All types of vegetation and possibly already dead carcasses
Period: From beginning of the first ice age to the dawn of civilization
Fossils have been found in: South America
size: 5 tons and 24 feet long
Closest living relatives: other sloths  

The Skinny shrew

Dear loyal followers,
I have decided that in the month of January I'm going to post about prehistoric mammals. So lets start with the first true mammal on earth, the Skinny shrew. Have a good Prehistoric Mammal Month.

Diet: insects
Habitats: shorelines of fresh water lakes
Closest living retaliative: Elephant shrew (to learn more about the elephant shrew click here)
How we know about them: Fossils in the liaoning providence of china
lived in: the Jurassic period