Peccaries have a long history of evolution in North and South America and are distantly related to the true pigs of Europe and Asia. The flat-headed peccary (Platygonis compressus) was about the size of a European
Peccaries have a long history of evolution in North and South America and are distantly related to the true pigs of Europe and Asia. The flat-headed peccary (Platygonis compressus) was about the size of a European wild boar (Sus scrofa); about 75 centimetres in height at the shoulder. Ice age peccary skulls suggest a small brain with a strong sense of smell and sight. Their oversized noses and nasal cavity may have provided filtration of the dry, dusty air blowing across the ice age landscape.
The ice age flat-headed peccary is best known from sites across the United States and as far south as Mexico. Peccaries are usually found in groups or even small herds. Groups of fossi