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Kubanochoerus was a righteously weird old pig! It was almost a unicorn, having a bony horn in the middle of its forehead ... it also had two much smaller horns over its eyebrows. Perhaps it was only the males who had these. It was a very large pig, reaching 1.2 m (4') at the shoulder, and probably about 500 kg (1100 lbs) in bodyweight. Kubanochoerus fossils from the middle Miocene, about 15 to 7 million years ago, have been found in Europe and Asia. These pigs were likely omnivorous, like most modern pigs. Watercolour.

Description
Kubanochoerus was a righteously weird old pig! It was almost a unicorn, having a bony horn in the middle of its forehead ... it also had two much smaller horns over its eyebrows. Perhaps it was only the males who had these. It was a very large pig, reaching 1.2 m (4') at the shoulder, and probably about 500 kg (1100 lbs) in bodyweight. Kubanochoerus fossils from the middle Miocene, about 15 to 7 million years ago, have been found in Europe and Asia. These pigs were likely omnivorous, like most modern pigs. Watercolour.