Moeritherium, with an elongated snout & front teeth, was the ancestor of this present-day animal
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Scientific Classification of Elephants - Sea World  However, modern day elephants represent only one of many proboscid ... Elephant ancestry spans over 55 million years and includes more than 300 proboscidean species. ... The earliest member of the Order Proboscidea was Moeritherium. ... indicates they had an elongated snout, similar to a tapir's, and thick upper lip.
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List 17 Flashcards | Quizlet  elephant. ANIMAL ANCESTORS $800: Moeritherium, with an elongated snout & front teeth, was the ancestor of this present-day animal.
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Proboscidea - Encyclopedia - Theodora  PROBOSCIDEA (animals "with a proboscis"), the scientific name of the group of mammals represented at the present day only by the two species of elephant. ... The teeth consist of a pair of large upper permanently growing incisors or tusks; ... it is necessary to discuss to some extent those of the immediate ancestors of the...
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Evolution : Order elephants : Subclass Placental mammals  The earliest known ancestors of modern-day elephants evolved about 65 million years ago in ... animals were from pig- to cow-sized, with an elongated snout but no trunk. They sported two pairs of slightly elongated front teethindicators of what would ... Three groups of elephant-like animals descended from Moeritherium:...
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exZOOberance - Elephant  Aug 1, 2015 ... The earliest known ancestors of modern-day elephants evolved about 65 million ... animals were from pig- to cow-sized, with an elongated snout but no trunk. They sported two pairs of slightly elongated front teethindicators of what ... Three groups of elephant-like animals descended from Moeritherium:...
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BIL 106 - Lecture 11  These are the closest living relatives of the four-legged vertebrates, tetrapods. ... keratinized epidermal scales; in some species, bony dermal plates (scutes) ... Turtles lack teeth, but have sharp cutting edges to the maxilla (upper jaw) ... These are the original scaley-skinned animals, though all mammals and birds also have...
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Jeopary Questions page 864 - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH ...  WORD ORIGINS: The hero of a Robert Burns poem lends his name to this ... OCEAN LIFE: Having flat teeth is one way that these animals differ from the related dolphins who have pointy triangular teeth ... OCEAN LIFE: The manatee is distantly related to this land mammal that also uses its snout to push food into its mouth.
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Human Evolution - University of Waikato  The pelvic, leg, and foot bones clearly show that this species was bipedal, though not ... On the ape side, it has a small ear opening, thick enamel on its molar teeth, ..... fossils and later anatomically modern Late Pleistocene humans" (White et al. ... The brain is enclosed in a high, vaulted skull with a high forehead, and brow...
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Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter - (Type a title for your page here)  Gordon Hubbel's 7-3/8 inch megalodon found by Vito Bertucci ... Estimates give it 40 to 60 feet between tooth and tail, and a weight of ... Meg's closest ancestors, as well as the ancestors of today's great white shark ... But in studying modern great white shark jaws, as well as associated and partially-associated teeth of Meg...
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Evolution of the horse - Wikipedia  The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time ... The early ancestors of the modern horse walked on several spread-out toes, ... When the Spanish colonists brought domestic horses from Europe, ... The original sequence of species believed to have evolved into the horse was...
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Dinosaur pictures--Triceratops--Tyrannosaurus rex  Triceratops was a herbivore and its largest predator was Tyrannosaurus rex. ... short horn above its beak and two long, double-recurved brow horns (up to 3 ft/90 cm long). ... Its head with large eyes was almost one-third as long as its body (up to 10 ft/3 ... Triceratopses were continually harassed by the attacks of the vicious...
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The Geology P.A.G.E.: April 2011  Apr 1, 2011 ... Its two longer horns each could extend more than three feet. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ..... Fossils in Niger indicate the "super" type of this animal was the size of a bus; it often drowned its prey
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Animals - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  About 180 million years ago, mammals evolved from reptile class, named from Latin for "creeping" by Ray Sahelian, M.D.. Arthropod Class: arachnid, crustacean...
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proboscidean | mammal | Britannica.com  Proboscidean (order Proboscidea), any of the group of mammals that includes ... Elephants and mammoths both belong to the only surviving proboscidean family, ... largest living land animal, characterized by its long trunk (elongated upper lip...
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(Type a title for your page here) - PaleoPress.net  The ultimate terror of the waters, sixty feet long, and just as predaceous in its ... the enormous shape -- a 60-foot long pregnant C. megalodon shark -- began to give ... teeth, many of which protruded over an inch from the sharks' menacing jaws. .... Beauty and the Beast (Photo galleries for identification of Meg, her ancestors,...
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Stoat - Wikipedia  The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel, is a mammal of the genus ... The stoat's direct ancestor was Mustela palerminea, a common carnivore in ... The stoat's ancestors were larger than the current form, and underwent a ... Its next closest relatives are the New World Colombian weasel (Mustela...
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Evolution of horses: Ecology and Biodiversity. With color photos!  We review the history of the horse family, from its beginnings in North ... horses inhabited ancient landscapes, interacted with prehistoric fauna and flora ... some basic facts about modern-day horse species and their relatives. .... Later in the Miocene, however, some horses became monodactyl, with one toe on each foot, like...
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Timeline of evolution | Paleontology Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia  4100 Ma, The surface of the Earth cools enough for the crust to solidify. .... Pikaia, a small swimmer and the earliest-known animal with a notochord, is believed to ..... the dawn bear (Ursavus elmensis) is the ancestor of all bears living today. It is the size of a fox, hunts in the tree tops, and supplements a diet of meat with plant...
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Morphological Variation in Head Shape of Pipefishes and ...  and to different body postures (in line with the head ver-. sus vertical with a tilted ... inverse relation between relative snout length and intra- ..... right side of the head of all animals was photographed and a ...... at an acute angle with their body.
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Tuataras - Sphenodon - Details - Encyclopedia of Life  The tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand which, though it resembles most ... Their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the .... S. punctatus was named when only one species was known, and its name is ... A third, extinct species of Sphenodon was identified in November 1885 by...
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Observations on the African Lung-Fish, Protopterus thiopicus, and ...  teleostome fishes, and persists today in many primitive fishes which lack efficient means ... evidence to indicate that the respiratory organ has been acquired independently ... this I mean instinct, or structure is the more conservative in evolution." ..... Under these conditions, as soon as the lung-fish rises for its first breath of air.