Sivatherium (SciiFii)

Sivatherium ("Shiva's beast", from Shiva and therium, Latinized form of Ancient Greek θηρίον - thēríon) is a genus of giraffids that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian subcontinent. The species Sivatherium giganteum is, by weight, the largest giraffid known, and also possibly the largest ruminant of all time.[3] 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 million years ago. 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[4] and Central West India.[5]