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Description
Lesmesodon edingeri
Named by (Specific name by Springhorn 1982)
Diet: Carnivore (Prey included mostly small mammals and other small vertebrates as well as invertebrates and carrion)
Type: Creodont (Hyeanodontid) Placental mammal
Size: 17.7 inches (45 centimeters) long and 2 lb.
Region: Europe [Germany (for this species) and France]
Age: Paleogene (Middle Eocene; 50 to 47 million BC)
Enemies: Crocodilians such as the terrestrial Boverisuchus and the semiaquatic Asiatosuchus
Episode: New Dawn (Unnamed; dubbed 'creodont' in the companion book)
Info: Stalking the lush semi-tropical forests of what is now the famous Messel Pit near Franfurt, Germany, around 47 million years ago in the Mid Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period, this weseal-sized predator was a primitive member of an extinct family of predatory mammals called creodonts that differs from the carnivora (a diverse lineage of placental mammals that includes nearly all, mostly carnivorous like their namesake, modern mammals such as cats, dogs, bears, seals, weasels, hyenas, etc.) by having smaller primitive brains, had less complex ears, were not good runners, had clefts in their toe bones, and have carnassial teeth that formed in the first molars. One of the earliest mammalian predators along with mesonychids, they evolved as small animals living in the Paleocene forest when there were no large predators evolving to fill in the void left by the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs, but by the Late Eocene to Oligocene epoch (Late Paleogene period), when the world's climate cooled, the lush forests gave way to open habitats, and many mammalian herbivores grew larger and evolved to exploit these changes, the creodonts, along with other mammalian predators, followed, growing larger, and becoming apex terrestrial predators with powerful bone-crushing jaws and teeth and some grew bigger than the biggest bears of today, but would eventually fade into oblivion in the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period as they were unable to compete with the rising carnivoras that were beginning to take over their niches and by 8 million years ago, the last of the creodonts went extinct for good.

Note: Sources The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures by Dougal Dixon (2008)

Took you FOREVER to wait huh?! Well your in luck! Here you go! My apologies!

The thing is is that 2021 was not a great year for me (even though I did great in General Psychology) and I did not have a great summer (my malteses Snowy and Wilky were put down, my English class I was going to take is canceled due to the few amounts of students enrolled, trouble with my family and other people, middle child syndrome, didn't go on vacation, feel like I'm NOT as smart as I used to, a lot of bad weather in July, etc.). Also I'm doing a series as well.

Its interesting that the animal here was actually the Bear-dog (Cynodictis) model that was re-used in Land of the Giants episode

Walking with Beasts is owned by BBC

Description
Lesmesodon edingeri
Named by (Specific name by Springhorn 1982)
Diet: Carnivore (Prey included mostly small mammals and other small vertebrates as well as invertebrates and carrion)
Type: Creodont (Hyeanodontid) Placental mammal
Size: 17.7 inches (45 centimeters) long and 2 lb.
Region: Europe [Germany (for this species) and France]
Age: Paleogene (Middle Eocene; 50 to 47 million BC)
Enemies: Crocodilians such as the terrestrial Boverisuchus and the semiaquatic Asiatosuchus
Episode: New Dawn (Unnamed; dubbed 'creodont' in the companion book)
Info: Stalking the lush semi-tropical forests of what is now the famous Messel Pit near Franfurt, Germany, around 47 million years ago in the Mid Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period, this weseal-sized predator was a primitive member of an extinct family of predatory mammals called creodonts that differs from the carnivora (a diverse lineage of placental mammals that includes nearly all, mostly carnivorous like their namesake, modern mammals such as cats, dogs, bears, seals, weasels, hyenas, etc.) by having smaller primitive brains, had less complex ears, were not good runners, had clefts in their toe bones, and have carnassial teeth that formed in the first molars. One of the earliest mammalian predators along with mesonychids, they evolved as small animals living in the Paleocene forest when there were no large predators evolving to fill in the void left by the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs, but by the Late Eocene to Oligocene epoch (Late Paleogene period), when the world's climate cooled, the lush forests gave way to open habitats, and many mammalian herbivores grew larger and evolved to exploit these changes, the creodonts, along with other mammalian predators, followed, growing larger, and becoming apex terrestrial predators with powerful bone-crushing jaws and teeth and some grew bigger than the biggest bears of today, but would eventually fade into oblivion in the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period as they were unable to compete with the rising carnivoras that were beginning to take over their niches and by 8 million years ago, the last of the creodonts went extinct for good.

Note: Sources The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures by Dougal Dixon (2008)

Took you FOREVER to wait huh?! Well your in luck! Here you go! My apologies!

The thing is is that 2021 was not a great year for me (even though I did great in General Psychology) and I did not have a great summer (my malteses Snowy and Wilky were put down, my English class I was going to take is canceled due to the few amounts of students enrolled, trouble with my family and other people, middle child syndrome, didn't go on vacation, feel like I'm NOT as smart as I used to, a lot of bad weather in July, etc.). Also I'm doing a series as well.

Its interesting that the animal here was actually the Bear-dog (Cynodictis) model that was re-used in Land of the Giants episode

Walking with Beasts is owned by BBC