| rdfs:comment | - Although superficially pig-like, Archaeotherium, along with all other entelodonts, was more closely related to anthracotheres, hippopotamuses, and whales. Evidence from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center suggests that the omnivorous Archaeotherium, like modern carnivores, kept caches of food when their hunting was unsuccessful.
- The Archaeotherium was a fierce Entelodont and lived in the Miocene Epoch. It was rather powerful, about the size of Gorgonops, and was an ungulate mammal.
- The Archaeotherium is one of Vuunega's megafauna, and is possibly the planet's best success story. Archaeotheriums are K-strategists, and, like other K-strategists, have great longevity, low death rates, and few natural predators once they hit adulthood; however, they also have slow population grow rates. They are the most ancient still-surviving species on the planet, having originally evolved over a billion years ago.
- In life, Archaeotherium probably resembled a large, fanged, peccary with bumps projecting from the side of its head. It had high shoulders, presumably to carry strong neck muscles to support the heavy head. The brain was tiny, but had relatively large olfactory lobes, suggesting that the animal had a keen sense of smell.[1] Evidence from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center suggests that Archaeotherium,like modern carnivores, kept caches of food when their hunting was unsuccessful. These bones were mainly those of Poebrotherium.[citation needed]
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| abstract | - In life, Archaeotherium probably resembled a large, fanged, peccary with bumps projecting from the side of its head. It had high shoulders, presumably to carry strong neck muscles to support the heavy head. The brain was tiny, but had relatively large olfactory lobes, suggesting that the animal had a keen sense of smell.[1] The largest (and type) species, A. mortoni was an aggressive, cow-sized apex predator. Rhino jaws and other mammal bones have been found with bite marks on them that match the large canines of A. mortoni. A fossil trackway in Toadstool Park depicts the path of a Subhyracodon walking forward, stopping to see an Archaeotherium approach, then breaking into a gallop with the entelodont chasing after it.[citation needed] In leaner times, it is suggested that Archaeotherium dug for roots and tubers, as with other pig-like mammals.[1] Evidence from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center suggests that Archaeotherium,like modern carnivores, kept caches of food when their hunting was unsuccessful. These bones were mainly those of Poebrotherium.[citation needed]
- Although superficially pig-like, Archaeotherium, along with all other entelodonts, was more closely related to anthracotheres, hippopotamuses, and whales. Evidence from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center suggests that the omnivorous Archaeotherium, like modern carnivores, kept caches of food when their hunting was unsuccessful.
- The Archaeotherium was a fierce Entelodont and lived in the Miocene Epoch. It was rather powerful, about the size of Gorgonops, and was an ungulate mammal.
- The Archaeotherium is one of Vuunega's megafauna, and is possibly the planet's best success story. Archaeotheriums are K-strategists, and, like other K-strategists, have great longevity, low death rates, and few natural predators once they hit adulthood; however, they also have slow population grow rates. They are the most ancient still-surviving species on the planet, having originally evolved over a billion years ago. They are extremely well-adapted to surviving -- so well, in fact, that they have not needed to evolve since the Sulphura Period many millions of years ago, making them true "living fossils". Generally, they are terrestrial creatures, but prefer to take to subterranean habitats if given the chance. If the need arises, they can also go swimming, and are built to be able to hold their breath for over 2 hours at the surface, although this time obviously decreases with depth. The reasons their descendants did not take over the world during the period it took for the Zocellium cells to evolve into Aurix megafauna is due in whole to Zommian intervention, locking them away in stasis cells both within their metropolises and in underground bunkers as one of the "perfect specimens" the Zomm wished to preserve while attempting to survive the incoming comet. Eventually throngs of these cells began to fail after so many eons, releasing the Archaeotheriums back into the world.
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