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by **Keyser** » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:48 pm

charlie wrote:
Keyser wrote:
charlie wrote:I wasn't talkin' about the African Giant Millipede....

The less said about the Geoduck clam the better... :awesome:

by **Keyser** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:27 pm

A few recent stories. :cuppaT:

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/conserva ... ad-sharks/

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-oxygen-io ... anets.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/5 ... d-fossils/

by **Keyser** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:24 pm

Just a beautiful photo of a Great Hammerhead. :wubbers:

by **Keyser** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:17 pm

The largest land mammal of all time compared to a large bull African elephant. :cuppaT:

by **charlie** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:59 pm

That was an Asian elephant, Keys from what I've read, that lived in the Ice Age as Mammoths did but before them?

So why didn't this earlier species of elephant grow a thick coat to live in like the Mammoth?

Or was it dependant on where they lived in the Ice Age - you know in regards to climate?

I never knew how many different species of elephants have lived throughout the centuries - and aside from the Mammoth, they seemingly look exactly like modern day elephants.

by **Keyser** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:05 am

charlie wrote:That was an Asian elephant, Keys from what I've read, that lived in the Ice Age as Mammoths did but before them?

So why didn't this earlier species of elephant grow a thick coat to live in like the Mammoth?

Or was it dependant on where they lived in the Ice Age - you know in regards to climate?

I never knew how many different species of elephants have lived throughout the centuries - and aside from the Mammoth, they seemingly look exactly like modern day elephants.

Hi Charlie! :Hiya:

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It all depended on the environment and the climate as you said - yes morphologically they were all very similar indeed.

It is awesome to think that an animal weighing 22 metric tons survived until only 24,000 years ago - a blink in geological time.

Palaeoloxodon was a total beast! :cuppaT: