Sivatherium

Sivatherium ("Shiva's beast") is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. The species Sivatherium giganteum is the largest giraffid known, and also possibly the largest ruminant of all time. The Afro-Asiatic species, S. maurusium, was once placed within the genus "Libytherium".
S. giganteum remains have been recovered from the Himalayan foothills, dating around 1,000,000 BCE. S. maurusium may have gone extinct as recently as 8,000 years ago, as depictions that greatly resemble it are known from ancient rock paintings in the Sahara and Central West India.
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Neogene mammals of africa
Category:Neogene mammals of asia
Category:Prehistoric giraffes
Category:Pliocene even-toed ungulates
Category:Pleistocene even-toed ungulates
Category:Prehistoric mammal genera