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 ...
(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 ...
Long before modern elephants roamed the savannas species like Platybelodon and Deinotherium shaped prehistoric landscapes Platybelodon is often described as having "shovel like" tusks yet researchers ...
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 ...
Whenever I visit New York’s American Museum of Natural History, I can’t leave without briefly passing through the fourth floor fossil halls. The rows of skeletal displays are those rare places where ...
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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