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Published: 2019-03-11 03:51:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 21664; Favourites: 808; Downloads: 7
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Megalenhydris fue una nutria gigante que habitó las costas de Cerdeña durante el Pleistoceno. Aunque su esqueleto no está completo, es suficiente para deducir dos cosas; que era mucho mayor que cualquier nutria moderna, y que aparentemente estaba muy adaptada a un estilo de vida acuático, ya que su cola (de la que solo se conoce una parte) estaba aplanada dorsoventralmente, y su columna vertebral parece haber sido inusualmente flexible. Megalenhydris parece haber sido lo más cerca que las nutrias llegaron a convertirse en verdaderos monstruos marinos. Posiblemente se alimentaba de peces grandes y moluscos.Megalenhydris was a gigantic otter that lived off the coasts of Sardinia during the Pleistocene. Although its skeleton is not complete, it is enough to deduce two things; it was much bigger than any modern otter, and it was apparently very well adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Its tail (of which only part is known) seems to have been dorsoventrally flattened, and its backbone was very flexible. Megalenhydris seems to be the closest otters ever got to becoming true sea monsters. It probably fed on large fish and mollusks.
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Is it also the largest of all Mustelidae, the biggest of all weasels?
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How’s it compare to this:
synapsida.blogspot.com/2016/05…
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Good question. Unfortunately, the truth is I don´t know. There are other big mustelids out there that have been estimated at around 100 kg, including a species of Plesiogulo (a wolverine type), but I don´t remember reading any weight estimates for Megalenhydris.
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I am, however, deeply amused that poor Dunk the Diver risked his leg to get a shot and yet you STILL didn't use his photograph!
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By the look of things it's not above taking a bite at poor old Dunk the Diver either! (who must have nerves of steel AND more lives than a cat to survive this particular day job).
Please allow me to compliment you on this evocation of an intriguingly unique species; I've long been intrigued by the "Walking Whales" and it's fascinating to see how close one of the otters came to following that path back to the sea.
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Googléalo. No es que haya mucho sobre él por desgracia. :/
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que pesadilla, de hecho si era agresiva, el nada en el oceano habria sido muy peligroso
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Es excelente! muy interesante el camino evolutivo de esta criatura, una pena que tantos animales asombrosos se hayan extinto a fines del Pleistoceno.
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Si, dan nostalgia aquellos tiempos tan ricos en especies...
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Fascinating creature. Looks like it would make even the giant otters of the Amazon look small in comparison.
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Yes, apparently it was far larger!
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This is quite bizarre. Megalenhydris kinda look like it would evolve into something like a mosasaur or metriorhynchoid in the far future.
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Maybe something akin to that water panther thing from Star Wars Episode I haha
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You mean the Sando Aqua Monster? (I had to search for about 2 minutes to find the creature you were talking about.) And yeah they do look similar.
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Yeah, that's the one!
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So cool, and very unusual to get know of a prehistoric otter. The water-living old mammals that get most of the attention tend to be early cetaceans like Ambulocetus or Basilosaurus, so this is a really nice touch of variety. One nice thing to do would be an Odobenocetops.
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It's most definitely on my list!
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I'd never heard of this animal before. Thank you! I am enraptured.
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Looks like the Otter is in the mood for human foot
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The thought crossed my mind
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... as well as scuba divers dumb enough to draw its attention.
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Yo sé que las nutrias son peligrosas y todo pero están muy bonitas 😍.
Excelente trabajo. 🙌😁
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Completamente de acuerdo, y gracias!
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damn, and I thought normal otters were demonic
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They do bite really hard
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this reminds me of the bunyips in DnD and Pathfinder (which are large magical beasts that look like seals with shark-like attributes)
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like honestly,, that's fursona material right there-- I've been wanting to make an otter or seal, but that's even better omg
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