Beast (Animal)

The Beast is an extinct species of large omnivorous quadrupedal Entelodont mammal related to a modern day terminator hippopotamus. They were covered in thick brown fur, they had tall goat-like horns on their heads (which they probably evolved for fighting other males to protect their territories), they had four hoofed toes touching the ground and fifth toes not touching the ground, and a long tail, but no one knows what their tails really looked like (even ones who encountered these mammals when they were alive) as the explorers or other people hadn't looked clearly, so they either had large bushy wolf-like fox-like tails or skiny lion-like tails with fur tufts at the end. They were very territorial and were native to much of the European forests, but often lived in recently and long-abandoned villages and castles. They probably evolved from Entelodonts of North America in the Miocene that made it into Eurasia when the land-bridge formed between Siberia and Alaska. They were finally made extinct in the year 1729 when a lone male beast was found by bounty hunters in a castle that was abandoned for few years when the beast was alive, and was killed by them due to persecution and superstition (for example, heard of false stories of humans becoming beasts and terrorizing townsfolk). The beast may have had inspired the stories of a large hairy beasts that live in castles, with a great example being Beauty and the Beast, where the Beast was portrayed as being once human, probably spread through myths of men becoming beasts, which were actually just normal animals that made castles home after humans who own the castles abandoned them. However, as some fur coats of the beasts have remained preserved through either preservative alcohol or in right conditions, giving hope to clone and bring this species back from extinction.