Entelodont. If you've never heard this word, don't be surprised! The creature lived 23 million years ago during the Miocene Period in North America, Europe and Asia. Artist Bob Shannahan has brought it back to life at the Mill Brook Gallery and sculpture garden, just in time for the 15th annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit.
Shannahan has become well known for wild creations constructed from natural materials, including Mill Brook's life-size Woolly Mammoth. This year the “Entelodont” arrived. Certainly the scariest of Shannahan's prehistoric sculptures, the Entelodont has the feet of a moose, legs of a pony, trunk of a cow and the head of a boar, plus forty-four menacing crocodilian teeth. A Frankenstein of a dinosaur sometimes called the “Hell Pig” or “Terminator Pig,” it stood 6 feet high at the withers and ate just about anything, including roots, tubers and other animals.
The 15th annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit runs from June 24 to Oct. 19. For more information, call 226-2046 or visit themillbrookgallery.com.
