ArcaneSigil wrote:Not entirely sure what all mythos you'd find on it, but there's a creature called a Leucrocuta. It's a mix between a hyena and a lion, and something else but I don't remember what. It's mouth stretches from ear to ear and it doesn't have teeth. Instead, it has a plate of bone under its pallet, in it's mouth, upper jaw region, that it uses so spears and other bladed weapons can't puncture it's head. Prime vore monster material, I think. I also think it would go HERE because I found out about it on a Youtube Video. Oh, also there's the Noctotitan. MASSIVE creature, probably, since it's got TITAN in the name. It's abilities include voice mimicking, so it's intelligent, and it's easily VERY large. The sounds that were picked for it were deep, low, rumbly sounds that would echo even in still air.
I've got the dirt on this for you. The leucrocuta, also known as the crocotta (some sources claim these are similar but different creatures, but they equally fit your description) were supposedly produced from either the mating of either a lioness and a hyena or a wolf and a dog depending on the writer. They originated in Greco-Roman myth and were later popular in medieval bestiaries, but were stated to be from either Ethiopia or India (popular supposed locations for fantastic beasts in those periods). While the mouth did stretch from ear to ear and lacked teeth, the bone isn't a "plate under the pallet", it's a ridge of sharp bone running along both jaws that serves in place of teeth. I'm not sure if you were referring to the leucrocuta with this part, but they were indeed supposed to be able to mimic voices. Overall, Pliny described it as "the swiftest of all beasts, about the size of an ass, with a stag's haunches, a lion's neck, tail and breast, badger's head, cloven hoof, mouth opening right back to the ears, and ridges of bone in place of rows of teeth—this animal is reported to imitate the voices of human beings."
Regarding the "Noctotitan", this is the first I've heard of it, and, based on a quick Google search, there is no mythological basis for it whatsoever; it's the invention of a single YouTube sound designer.