The resulting animal is not as grandiose as the Leviathan, and Mastodon as a species are now known to have been marginally smaller animals than their pachyderm relatives of today, the elephant.
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Jonathan T on Nostr: Owen was already in the process of developing and contributing to the science of ...
Owen was already in the process of developing and contributing to the science of comparative anatomy, a field in which he was particularly adept. And it was he who set about reconstructing a physiologically accurate #Mastodon americanum from Koch's Leviathan.
The resulting animal is not as grandiose as the Leviathan, and Mastodon as a species are now known to have been marginally smaller animals than their pachyderm relatives of today, the elephant.
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The resulting animal is not as grandiose as the Leviathan, and Mastodon as a species are now known to have been marginally smaller animals than their pachyderm relatives of today, the elephant.
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