Paleoparadoxia (SciiFii)

The greater sea-hippo (Paleoparadoxia pacificus) is a species of large, herbivorous aquatic mammals that originally lived in the northern Pacific coastal region during the Miocene epoch (20 to 10 million years ago), from the waters of Japan (Tsuyama and Yanagawa), to Alaska in the north, to Baja California, Mexico, as an extinct species of Paleoparadoxia, and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced to the modern tropical, subtropical, temperate, and boreal coastlines across the Pacific parts of North America and Eurasia. The greater sea-hippo is about 2.2 meters (7 feet 3 inches) long and weigh almost a ton when fully grown. It primarily feeds on seaweeds and sea grasses. The jaws and the angle of the teeth resemble a backhoe bucket. Its bulky body is well adapted for swimming and underwater foraging. The greater sea-hippos are a fully marine mammal like their relatives, the sirenians, spending most of their lives walking across the sea bottom with their webbed limbs with hoofed toes, very much like marine equivalent of hippos. Much like sirenians such as dugongs, the greater sea-hippos prefers to live in deep, offshore waters, where many tall and large aquatic marine vegetation lives in. If they're stranded on land, it is clear that they resemble seals, but on further inspection they're actually a sea-hippo, and unlike seals, since they're completely adapted to life in the sea and they're unable to move on their own on land, much like manatees and dugongs, and they would die due to dehydration and due to its body collapsing over time without help of people bringing them back to the water. The conservation status of the greater sea-hippo is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and the greater sea-hippo's wide range.
Category:Animals
Category:SciiFii