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- noun Plural form of
litoptern .
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Examples
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Horses (in North America*) and litopterns (in South America, which was in those days a gigantic island, the Panama isthmus being way in the future) independently evolved exactly the same reduction of all the fingers and toes except the middle ones, and sprouted identical hooves on the ends of those.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Horses and litopterns hit upon the same way – reducing all digits except the middle one – and they carried it to the same conclusion.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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I glory in the litopterns, extinct South American herbivores, not closely related to any modern animals, and very different from horses – except that they had almost identical legs and hooves.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Horses (in North America*) and litopterns (in South America, which was in those days a gigantic island, the Panama isthmus being way in the future) independently evolved exactly the same reduction of all the fingers and toes except the middle ones, and sprouted identical hooves on the ends of those.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Horses and litopterns hit upon the same way – reducing all digits except the middle one – and they carried it to the same conclusion.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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I glory in the litopterns, extinct South American herbivores, not closely related to any modern animals, and very different from horses – except that they had almost identical legs and hooves.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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