The Technical World Magazine, Volume 21Technical World Company, 1914 |
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Page 54
... Miocene elephant , so - called be- cause of the geological period in which he appeared . This animal was about the size of our own elephant , but with four tusks , the upper and lower pairs being designed to seize and pull down the ...
... Miocene elephant , so - called be- cause of the geological period in which he appeared . This animal was about the size of our own elephant , but with four tusks , the upper and lower pairs being designed to seize and pull down the ...
Page 55
... Miocene elephant there appeared to be no development of the species . This was extraordinary , for any animal with four tusks and a trunk ought to show forerunners some- thing like it in the next earlier geolog- ical period , or else ...
... Miocene elephant there appeared to be no development of the species . This was extraordinary , for any animal with four tusks and a trunk ought to show forerunners some- thing like it in the next earlier geolog- ical period , or else ...
Page 58
... Miocene elephant . You will recall that the elephant had four tusks in pairs , the lower ones be- ing merely ... Miocene elephant and the whole beast much smaller , about half the size of either the Miocene or our own elephant and one ...
... Miocene elephant . You will recall that the elephant had four tusks in pairs , the lower ones be- ing merely ... Miocene elephant and the whole beast much smaller , about half the size of either the Miocene or our own elephant and one ...
Page 59
... Miocene elephant at Mogara , seventy - five miles northwest of the Fayƻm , shows that the Miocene elephant first developed in Africa directly from the Palaeomas- todon , while Africa was still an island continent . Bones of the Miocene ...
... Miocene elephant at Mogara , seventy - five miles northwest of the Fayƻm , shows that the Miocene elephant first developed in Africa directly from the Palaeomas- todon , while Africa was still an island continent . Bones of the Miocene ...
Page 60
... Miocene beast was migratory and eventually found his way over the Alaskan peninsula into North America where his descendants became the special form of mastodon known as Dibelodon and were first elephants to reach South America ...
... Miocene beast was migratory and eventually found his way over the Alaskan peninsula into North America where his descendants became the special form of mastodon known as Dibelodon and were first elephants to reach South America ...
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