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  • Well, an unnatural knowledge of proboscideans is not necessarily a good thing!

    More fisheying the Museum of Natural History. Ann Althouse 2008

  • (That is, if they really did hunt proboscideans) 10: 24 PM

    Giant killers: macropredation in lions Darren Naish 2006

  • Handlers with long goads brought on six colossal proboscideans with downcurving tusks.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Sanskrit, as honey-suckers, or on still rarer occasions as double-proboscideans.

    Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • The massive hind limbs, supporting the whole weight of the body, exceeded the limbs of the great proboscideans in bulk, and in a standing position the animal was eighteen to twenty feet high, as against twelve for the largest

    Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

  • Libya, numerous proboscideans (the group to which elephants belong) have been discovered.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Instead the transition between the radiation of early proboscideans and the later, more mastodon-like forms was affected by creatures similar to

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Created by the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Tusks! exhibit features more than 80 specimens that include extinct proboscideans and some of their Ice Age neighbors, such as carnivores, horses, giant ground sloth and giant armadillos.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The collection includes the original fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs, giant rhinoceroses, and various species of proboscideans: mastodon, mammoth, elephant; ancient giant pigs; fossils of tortoise and many others which will leave the visitor feeling as if he found himself in Jurassic park.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Assuming that they all had the same type of saber-teeth and used them in the same ways would be like saying that all prehistoric proboscideans (elephants, generally speaking) had the same tusk morphology and used their tusks in the same way.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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