Here's a fossil of Archaeotherium, a large piglike animal that hunted small animals and also ate plants and carrion when it could find any. Some of these piggies grew as tall as 5 feet at the shoulder.
Archaeotherium's fossil is on display at the Badlands Visitor Center, along with a model of what scientists believe it looked like.
We wouldn't want to find one of these rooting around our campsite—not with those chompers—but it is time for lunch, and bacon sandwiches (of prehistoric, bacon-like sandwiches) sound a lot better than the usual peanut butter and jelly.
Here, piggy piggy...
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