Southern Desert Dylanus

A southern desert dylanus (Dylanus mexicanus) is an extinct species of dylanus known from fossils (both complete and fragmentary remains) and preserved bodies dating back to the Late Pleistocene in the deserts of the United States and Mexico. The preserved bodies of these dylanuses showed that they were almost completely hairless, even on their heads, and were slightly skinnier than most other North American dylanuses due to living in a drier and hotter environment. The southern desert dylanus was most likely an omnivore that fed on smaller animals, carrion, and fruits, and may have rarely fought the Shasta ground sloth as one fossilized southern desert dylanus with sloth claw marks suggests. The southern desert dylanus may have went extinct due to humans outcompeting them and/or climate change changing their habitats, however, the perfectly preserved remains of these dylanuses containing usable DNA gives scientists hopes of bringing back the extinct southern desert dylanus through cloning, as they may have helped spread the barrel cacti of some species which were dependant on these dylanuses to help spread their seeds (in a manner similar to how Shasta ground sloths help spread Joshua trees across deserts).