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It's a land mammal, whatever it is, is the Andrew Sargis. It's a skull, about 83 cm long, about 33 inches, roughly, body length 30.8 m, 12-13 ft, and it's about 6.2 ft, so almost 2 m high. And it was probably a scavenger, maybe even omnivore. And by looking at its jaw structure, paleontologists think it probably wasn't a very strong fighter, so probably just a scavenger. But that was at the time the largest land carnivore that ever existed, and the largest land mammal ever. This isn't the largest animal ever, which was kind of recorded as the land animal, the dinosaurs. But the largest land mammal ever was the Paracerritaria, and that was relative to the modern rhinoceros. It's about 5 m tall, almost 15 ft tall, length about 7 m long, 24 ft long, and it came in about 15-20 tons. However, there was also another one that they defined for that spot too. In most of the fossils in this one here, they showed it to be maybe around 14-15 ft tall shoulder, but there's been one fossil that they found, I think it might have been a lake bone, and they just extrapolated from the size of the lake bone, comparing it to the fossils that they found in this animal, the problem could have been bigger. So this is the paleo-loxodon, and it might have been bigger, in fact it's an extinct elephant, it's huge, it makes a modern elephant look tiny compared to it. And it's reached an item about 17 ft at the shoulder, so 5.2 m, and it weighed 22 tons. So there might have been another animal out there, in this case an extinct elephant, that may have been larger than the Paracerritaria, which is relative to the rhinoceros.