I imagine something like the ' wargs ' from 'Lord of the Rings.' - Matthew Borths, paleontologistBigger than any carnivorous land mammal alive today — even a polar bear — Simbakubwa's skull was the size of a rhino's, its 20-centimetre canine teeth as large as bananas. A lion's skull is seen above the fossil jaw of Sibakubwa, whose skull would have been closer to the size of a rhinoceros's. I imagine something like the 'wargs' from Lord of the Rings," said Borths, a Duke Lemur Center paleontologist, referring to fictional monstrous wolves. Carnivores with this posture tend to be ambush hunters like tigers rather than pursuit hunters like wolves," Borths said.

Source: CBC News April 18, 2019 14:03 UTC