Harpo-potamus Rex Successfully Re-Animated through Cloning!

For months now the collaborative experiment between the Embryonic Super Secret Lab and the S.P.A.O.S.L.B. to clone and re-animate harpo-potamus Rex has remained top secret.

Until now, it was only thought that such an experiment would take place. The photo and brief commentary issued to the press has rocked the entire community, if not the world.

Much is to be learned about the origins of the human species and life in pre-historic times through the study of the living specimen of Harpo-potamus Rex.
Much is already coming to light about the life of this somewhat unique dinosaur... it's eating habits for example.

It was long thought that because the Harpo-potamus Rex was/is a carnivore, that it was an apt hunter. This has proven not to be the case. Factually, it has been found that this creature was quite lethargic in it's activity and it ate in very much a seasonal manner. Wondering around and "foraging," even in water ways.

It has been proven that the Harpo-potamus Rex used it's horn in submission of prey, but the method which actually was employed has brought new insight into the pre-historic age and their daily life.

As it has turned out, the Harpo-potamus Rex was equipped with a rather unique "squeeze bulb" at the end of it's tail... which could and was used to "honk" the creatures horn, though not entirely independent of it's cardio vascular system. The entire herd was dependent upon the calves within it for much of it's sustenence.... as the calves would teethe using the squeeze bulb at the end of the cows tail, the honk would annoy any creature in the area quite literally, to death.

This incessant honking would go on for 24 hours a day, sometimes years at a time. Each cow would only have one calf in it's lifetime... and it appears that the squeeze bulb would only last as long as it took for the calf to grow their enormous teeth..... ending in a shredded, slobbery mess at the end of their tail.

The "bulls" of the heard would keep their "squeeze bulb" longer, though entirely dependant upon their success in the daily "honk off's" which are akin to the head butting and "rutting" actions of modern animals. It is that these contests differed in the effect that the "loser" would be the Harpo-potamus Rex who's horn got honked in the "honk-flict" between the bulls. It is thought that sometimes there were even "gang honks" of multiple "bulls" honk-flicting with one another for mating rights and food.

Envision a herd even larger than the historic herds of buffalo, all honking in the 300 decibel range for months and years on end? No hunting was necessary as other creatures would just drop dead as the calves teetheed and the "bulls" fought. There-in providing ample food in the area which they traversed.

Quite sadly, this is also thought to be part of the reason for their ultimate extinction, though after the genetic divergence into Hippo's and Harpo's. all that dead flesh around seems to have brought loads of other carnivores into their immediate area's, and it doesn't take a genius to figure where it went from there. Big slow honkers, versus big hungry, mean, scarey lizards.

It has been established that the Harpo-potamus Rex had incredibly bad hearing.

Mr. Lookahere could not be reached for comment as the intensive care unit only allows family and close friends for visitation purposes. He is expected to make a near full recovery laced only with a slight obsessive compulsive twitch due to the brain damage incurred while studying the Harpo-potamus Rex's horn a bit too closely.

Bubbles showed extremely poor taste and very primitive actions in acting out it's jealousy with a fresh hand of defecation hurled in the Harpo-potamus Rex's direction upon one of the few private viewings of the early days of the Harpo-potamus Rex.

Bubbles was allowed such viewing in an effort to quell the reported jealousy in hearing of the alternate genetic divergence.