(Phys.org) —Noted paleontologist William Sanders of the University of Michigan has suggested via email to Matt Simon of Wired Magazine, that earlier depictions of platybelodon with a gaping mouth are ...
In the main Proboscidean taxon of Elephantiformes, a huge pair of developed top incisors (ivories) has become a distinctive feature of this taxon. The structure is usually made as a tool for ...
Russian writer Anton Chekhov insisted that everything irrelevant to a work of fiction be removed -- if you describe a rifle mounted on the wall, someone had better fire it off at some point. This ...
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The giants before mammoths - What we do not fully understand about them
Long before mammoths roamed icy landscapes, other elephant relatives dominated prehistoric ecosystems. Platybelodon and Deinotherium evolved unusual tusk shapes that continue to spark debate among ...
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These extinct elephants were more bizarre than anything alive today
Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric ...
What ARE these creatures? Come on, these can't be real. What we have here is "Sk00tie's" (also known as Polish artist Tomasz Jedrzejowski's) rendering of two Platybelodons on a sunny day about 10 ...
A traditional restoration of Platybelodon as seen in H.F. Osborn’s 1936 elephant monograph. From Lambert (1992). At first Osborn thought that Granger had discovered a new species of the “shovel tusked ...
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