Pronghorn
Not a terribly exotic one this time - but I have always loved these due to their rather bizarre horns. However, during the Pleistocene era (12,000 - 2.5 million years before now) there were many (14) species of pronghorn, some with really outrageous horns and even some with additional horns on their nose! WQhat a pity that only one survived - but it still gives me an ice age feeling whenever I see one.
The pronghorn is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the prong buck, pronghorn antelope, ''cabri'' , or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to convergent evolution.
It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene period, 12 antilocaprid.. more
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