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A hippo? A backhoe? Nope, its Paleoparadoxia! This #Miocene ~10 mya #desmostylian named #Paleoparadoxia ”ancient paradox” stumped me when I first saw it. From afar I thought it was some kind of #hippo. As it turns out, early researchers thought it was amphibious, too. Nearly 8’ long and almost a ton, these #herbivores spent their lives like manatees today, of which they are distant relatives. What I found cool, aside from their amazing skulls, was that Paleoparadoxia lived in deep waters while t