At the edge of a sprawling grassland, a pair of hoofed grazers resembling horses, an antelopelike notoungulate and a ground sloth feed quietly, oblivious to their impending doom.
There are also detailed pictures of wild hoofed animals. Art and therefore the ability to think in abstract concepts is what distinguish our species from other animals.
The rare creatures are said to be frightened easily. They have two small fangs hanging from their mouths. They are the world's smallest hoofed animal, GWC said.
It's a two-by-two procession, and at the front are a pair of monsters, dramatic half-human creatures with clownish grimaces, spikes on their heads, wings, and hoofed legs.
And these comparisons showed that cetaceans are actually most closely related to a group known as artiodactyls, hoofed mammals that includes hippos, pigs, and deer.
In 2007, paleontologists in Kashmir, India, found the fossil of a 47 million year old hoofed creature the size of a house cat that they named Indohyus.
It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths.
And, the paleontological evidence, the fossil evidence and evidence from looking at the DNA of living whales and other animals now really strongly points to whales being very closely related to hoofed mammals.
A trail had been made down the mountain-side from the north, and all the gardens and meadows were destroyed by a horde of hoofed locusts, as if swept by a fire.