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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finite element analyses of feeding behaviors among three longirostrine gomphothere families and reconstruction of their feeding ecology. A–C, von Mises stress color maps of Choerolophodon (A), ...
But further investigations into the fossilised tusks have changed the minds of scientists. Vertebrate palaeontologist William Sanders, from the University of Michigan, told Wired: 'Recent analysis of ...
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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