Prehistoric Elephant - Platybelodon

Second in my weirdo elephantidae series after Deinotherium, Platybelodon!  Possibly the weirdest one.  I love their heads.  They're called "shovel tuskers" for a reason.

Something I learned: Google image search any prehistoric elephant and there's a decent chance you'll get a picture of one standing next to a girl in a bikini.  The more you know...

Deinotherium

Just in case you hadn't seen enough weird prehistoric elephant-like animals today, here is a Deinotherium. Apparently it was the 3rd largest land mammal known to live -- larger than modern elephants.

I've obviously used something of the skin texture of an Indian elephant here. I often dislike it when artists draw too heavily from living animals when reconstructing extinct ones, but a bit of speckled skin maybe isn't too big a crime.