Palaeontology - The Parnassian (Page 5)

In the foyer of the Anatomical Museum two large elephant skeletons flank a doorway marked Anatomical Museum, with two busts on pedestals between them.

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Skeletons in the Edinburgh Anatomical Museum foyer belong to elephants, not dinosaurs or mammoths

For many years two skeletons in the foyer of the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum were believed to be the remains of dinosaurs, and later of mammoths. They are, in fact, elephants

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The Giant Fossil Turtle from the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco: This Is How I See Russian Officialdom

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Skeleton of a giant found in Dauphiné in 1613 proved to be the bones of a Deinotherium

In 1613, the skeleton of a giant was discovered in the French province of Dauphiné. The coins found in the burial and the inscription Teutobochus Rex indicated that this was the grave of the Teutonic chieftain Teutobod, famed for his colossal size. True, when the Christian theologian of the 5th

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Hunting scenes with skeletons in the palaeontology hall of the Houston Museum of Natural Science

A human skeleton leaping onto the tip of a mammoth's tusk is not the only prank of the designers of the palaeontology hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science; there are other diverting scenes, for instance, a group of human skeletons driving a mammoth, or a mammoth

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Fisherman Raymond McElroy hauls giant deer skull from Lough Neagh in his net

A simple Irish fisherman, Raymond McElroy, has found the skull of a giant deer (otherwise known as the great-horned or Irish deer). The find landed in a fishing net in the largest lake in Great Britain, Lough Neagh (in Northern Ireland, not far from Belfast). This is the second

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A Skull Found by a Fisherman in an Irish Lough Lay Underwater for More Than Ten Thousand Years and Belongs to the Vanished Giant Deer

Skeletons of deer and horned hoofed animals in a hall with tall arched windows, with two large-horned skulls in the foreground.

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The Parade of Skeletons in the Paris Palaeontology Laboratory Exhibition

The exhibition of the Paris palaeontology laboratory is called a parade of skeletons, because all the skeletons face the same way. And yes, these beasts look as though they have only just reached retirement age in Russia

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The Giant Deer, or Irish Elk

The giant deer, or Irish elk. It became extinct about 20,000 years ago. The antlers of the animal spanned as much as 5 metres. This skeleton is kept in the Palaeontological Museum in Paris

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I looked back to see whether she had looked back, a she-bear Ursus spelaeus from the Ice Age, 14,000 years ago

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The first complete mammoth skeleton ever displayed in a museum belongs to the Lena mammoth; in this photograph its tusks are fitted wrongly: in reality they curved inwards, not outwards

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Adams's mammoth from the Lena valley stood with wrongly set tusks until 1899

A little about the errors of scholars. In 1806 a frozen mammoth was found in the valley of the River Lena. Apart from the missing internal organs, part of the muscle mass and the front right leg, it was a whole carcass, badly mauled by the wild beasts that had

The preserved carcass of an extinct lion cub, with remains of its fur, lies on a white cloth.

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Rare find of an extinct lion cub in frozen ground

The cub of an extinct lion lay in the frozen depths of the earth. It is an exceedingly rare find, on which I hasten to congratulate my colleagues toiling in Siberia!