Just because this coyote's body shape has changed, it feels that it can compete with the lion in front of it. Because it seems that this lion is not an adult lion, but a half-sized lion cub.

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This hyena saw that it was no match for the little lion, so it prepared to run away. It was still thinking that as long as it ran away, Chu Ye might not chase it.

But how could Chu Ye be willing to let it escape? So, Chu Ye started to pursue it again.

This hyena originally thought that even if he couldn't defeat Chu Ye, it wouldn't be too difficult to escape.

But things were not as he thought. When the coyote tried to escape again, Chu Ye quickly caught up with it.

This coyote ran forward for another few dozen meters before Chu Ye caught up with him. Because this coyote had been injured and the injury was serious, it actually no longer had the strength to escape.

Already.

After Chu Ye caught up with the coyote, he bit the coyote's neck again. This coyote had no power to fight back at all. It allowed Chu Ye to bite its neck.

, it could only struggle and let out some miserable screams.

Chu Ye was no longer polite now and kept biting the neck of the coyote. Its teeth soon penetrated into the throat of the coyote.

This hyena struggled for a while and then stopped moving. Because it had been killed by Chu Ye.

'Hmph, I can actually kill such a big coyote. It seems that my fighting ability is already very impressive.'

Chu Ye looked at the huge hyena in front of him, and he became more confident in his fighting power.

Originally, Chu Ye was now about the size of a leopard. Moreover, it was also very strong. If it hadn't looked like a lion, other animals would have mistaken it for an adult leopard.

Leopard.

After all, Chu Ye's appearance is different from that of ordinary lions. There is a white stripe on Chu Ye's back, extending from his neck to his tail.

Chu Ye is a super lion cub with the ability of a secret badger. Now his size has mutated again and is already larger than an ordinary lion cub. His current size may be smaller than his mother Lisa.

Chu Ye's size is already much larger than that of Xiao Hei, Xiao Maohuahua and Meimei. His size is at least twice the size of these little lions.

'Okay, since I killed this coyote, let me have a taste of what this coyote feels like!'

When Chu Ye thought of this, he wanted to eat the coyote in front of him. After all, he hadn't eaten for several days and his stomach was growling with hunger!

But just when Chu Ye wanted to eat the coyote in front of him, an animal cry suddenly came from the distance.

'oh!--'

When Chu Ye heard the sound, he was stunned for a moment. However, Chu Ye immediately judged that this should be the sound of a hyena.

For Chu Ye, he is already very familiar with the sound of hyenas. After all, he has fought with hyenas several times.

'Hmph, aren't they just hyenas that are coming to snatch food from me? I'm not afraid of them. When I was a little lion, I wasn't afraid of them. What's more, I'm about the same size as an adult leopard now. I don't care.

You can defeat many hyenas.'

Although Chu Ye heard the hyena's cry, he was not afraid at all and continued to eat. After all, his body had grown up and his strength had increased a lot. How could he put a dog like a hyena on his body?

In eyes.

Although Chu Ye heard the hyena's cry, it just continued to eat the hyena and did not take the cry seriously at all.

But what happened next made Chu Ye feel that his brain was a little weak again. Because when Chu Ye was eating, a huge animal suddenly rushed in front of Chu Ye.

Chu Ye was startled just when he saw this animal. Because he felt that this was an animal he had never seen before.

This animal does look a bit like a hyena. But it is much larger than a hyena, almost as big as a male lion. It looks really scary. It doesn't look like a real animal at all.

Chu Ye was confused when he saw this animal. Because this animal was much taller than Chu Ye, it looked like a terrifying monster.

"What kind of animal is this? How come I haven't seen it before!" Chu Ye looked at the monster in front of him and felt very puzzled.

This monster came to Chu Ye, and it looked at Chu Ye in surprise. Obviously, it was also a little afraid of Chu Ye, because Chu Ye also seemed to be a ferocious animal, and it was not easy to offend.

Chu Ye saw that this monster did not dare to attack him, so he took the opportunity to take a good look at this monster.

After Chu Ye scanned this monster with his own eyes, he quickly knew what kind of monster it was.

‘Ah! It turns out it’s really a hyena!’ Chu Ye now knew that the monster in front of him was a hyena.

'But how come this hyena is so big! This is so scary! The hyena has grown to be as big as a lion, which is really strange.'

Although Chu Ye knew that the monster in front of him was a hyena, he didn't understand how this hyena could grow so big.

'Hey, what's going on? Could it be that this hyena is a throwback to his ancestors!'

Chu Ye looked at the giant hyena in front of him and suddenly thought of a large prehistoric carnivore - the giant hyena.

The giant hyena is an extinct, huge and terrifying carnivore. Its skull is very thick, with thick and expanded nasal bones, powerful zygomatic arches, a raised dome-shaped forehead and huge cheek teeth.

It is estimated to weigh more than 380 kilograms, four times as much as the largest modern African spotted hyena, and six to seventy kilograms heavier than modern African lions. Although the head and shape of hyenas are relatively similar to dogs or wolves, in fact

It is a member of the cat-shaped suborder and is closely related to civet cats.

Early scholars estimated that the giant hyena weighed 210 kilograms, but it now appears that it may have been a serious underestimate. Careful study by scholars shows that their weight may be equivalent to that of an adult brown bear. Modern African spotted hyenas usually weigh 70 kilograms.

The weight of the ancient giant hyena is estimated to be more than 300 kilograms, with a body length (including tail) of about 2.5 meters and a shoulder height of about 120cm. It is equivalent to the weight of an adult brown bear. Such large carnivores are uncommon in any era.

Spotted hyenas are distributed in the open grasslands south of the Sahara Desert in Africa. They are the largest species of hyenas in existence and the most famous species in the hyena family. In particular, their extremely terrifying calls are similar to the sound of human laughter.

"Scientific Bulletin" reported fossil osteological evidence of active hunting behavior of giant hyenas, showing that the skull of a female Rhinoceros victoria bore traces of being attacked by a giant hyena.

Comparing the aggressive behavior of living spotted hyenas against African black rhinoceros, the healed wounds of the female great labial rhinoceros are interpreted to be the result of attacks by giant hyenas from the late Miocene.

The hunting paleoecology of giant hyenas has long been the focus of widespread attention, but no clear evidence has been found to indicate the hunting habits of this carnivore.

This specimen of Victoria's Great Rhinoceros provides evidence that giant hyenas had similar hunting behavior to living spotted hyenas.

Although its specialized bone-eating skull and tooth morphology endow the giant hyena with a powerful ability to handle bones in scavenging, it is still an active hunter. The study material was produced from the Late Miocene Willow Formation Red at the Shuanggongbei site in the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province

in clay.

Based on the biochronology of mammalian fossils and paleomagnetic dating data, the geological age of the Shuanggongbei site is the early Late Miocene, about 92 million years old.

Living spotted hyenas are often thought of as mere scavengers, but detailed research has revealed that they are actually very efficient predators.

The feeding behavior of fossil carnivores is rarely understood, but the giant hyenas of Eurasia are one of the fossil carnivores that have attracted the most attention. There are still many unresolved questions about the hunting behavior of giant hyenas: whether it is related to the spotted carnivores.

An active and versatile hunter like a hyena? Or primarily a scavenger?

This Rhinoceros specimen is a complete skull with a mandible. Moderate wear on all teeth and a small lower second incisor indicate that this skull belongs to an adult female of Rhinoceros victoria.

The specimen has a clear scar on the upper right orbital rim, and comparison with the left side of the skull clearly shows the loss of bone tissue. In this area, the bone has been very deeply sunken and partially peeled off.

The curvature of the healed scar is quite steep, indicating that a curved object caused the scar. The scar has a rough, granular healing surface, with fibrocartilaginous bone tissue replacing it. The undulating character of the thick layer indicates that healing pathology has occurred.

phenomenon, followed by the formation of new bone tissue at the edge of the scar.

Further observation showed that there were signs of Harvard system regeneration in the healed area, indicating that the injury did not cause the death of the rhino.

The size of the upper canine teeth of the carnivore can be inferred based on the corresponding traces of the scars. It was found that the upper canine teeth of the giant hyena fossil unearthed in Shuanggongbei almost perfectly matched the bite position on the large labial rhinoceros specimen.

In particular, the measured width of these canine teeth matched the scars studied exactly, suggesting that the wound may have been a canine tooth mark inflicted by a massive hyena.

The canine-shaped lower incisors of Victoria's Great Labial Rhinoceros have a straight main blade ridge edge, so this arc of scar cannot be produced, and the abrasive surface from the incisors to the alveolus has exposed the dentine part, and its lower

The hardness makes it difficult to cause damage to bones.

These circumstances rule out the possibility that intraspecific competition between different individuals of Vernon's Rhinoceros caused this scar.

Sabre-toothed tiger is the second largest carnivore in the three-toed horse fauna in the Linxia Basin. However, this gouge on the upper edge of the rhino's orbit is much wider than the canine width of Sabre-toothed cat, which has long and thin upper canines.

Nor could it withstand the unpredictable force of a fighting or running rhinoceros, so a saber-toothed tiger could not have been the attacker.

The morphological characteristics and direction of the scars on this large labial rhinoceros skull indicate that the giant hyena attacked from the left front side, and the scar was caused by the giant hyena's upper right canine tooth.

According to the measurement of the distance between the canine teeth of the giant hyena and the recovery of the muscle thickness of the head of the labial rhinoceros, the bite marks of the corresponding upper left canine and two lower canines of the giant hyena should be located on the facial muscles of the labial rhinoceros, so there is no damage to the bones.

The mark of harm.

The giant hyena is one of the largest known schizopod carnivores in the fossil record, weighing more than 380 kilograms based on similar body proportions to other hyenas. The strong giant hyena dentition is undoubtedly hyena-type, showing

Its perfect bone-crushing ability.

For such a large carnivore, rhinoceros-based hunting or scavenging behavior may exist, and it is likely that it is completely similar to the highly opportunistic spotted hyena. Furthermore, the huge size of the giant hyena makes it capable of hunting down large animals.

Large mammals, including giraffes, rhinos, and occasionally elephants.

This explanation is theoretically consistent with the statistical observation of a critical mass of 21.5 kg for carnivores. Carnivores less than this weight usually hunt prey equal to 45% of their own body weight or less, while carnivores larger than this weight tend to hunt prey.

Prey that is larger than one's own body weight is the result of energy constraints.

The above examples show that giant hyenas should be the top predators of their era, occupying the top of the nutritional pyramid and occupying the ecological niche that was later replaced by big cats. Of course, this is undoubtedly not inconsistent with their ability to break bones and scavenge.

Based on the evidence of attacking large prey, combined with its fragmentary skull-tooth morphology and very large body size, it indicates that the giant hyena should be a highly versatile apex predator with relatively high performance in the late Miocene of the Linxia Basin.

Modern spotted hyenas are even more invincible on the African savanna.

Chu Ye looked at the huge hyena in front of him, and he suddenly thought of some information about the prehistoric monster giant hyena.

‘Crap, could it be said that the giant hyena in front of me is a prehistoric animal that crossed over to the prairie!’ Chu Ye looked at the giant hyena in front of him and began to have random thoughts.

However, Chu Yeyang immediately rejected his idea. After all, the story of prehistoric animals traveling to modern times is somewhat unreliable.

'It cannot be that prehistoric animals have traveled to modern times. It may be the result of mutations in modern animals.'

Chu Ye thought that the size of the hyena had changed. His own size had also increased a lot. This giant hyena Liu Ming was not a prehistoric giant hyena that traveled to modern times, but was just the size of a modern hyena.

A mutation has occurred.

Chu Ye looked at the huge hyena in front of him, which made him feel a little scared. After all, this giant hyena was almost the same size as a male lion. Why not let a little lion like Chu Ye feel scared?

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Chapter completed!