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I guess I have only heard of the North American Smilodon.
Muttaburrasaurus is a solid looking dinosaur. Are they only found in Australia? Do they have many specimens so far.
It is one I have never heard of around here and Canada does have a lot of dinosaur fossils.
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I saw a mastodon skeleton at the Page Museum in Los Angeles. It was done so I could walk right up to the skeleton and stand face to face with it. It was huge. I had to look up at it and the tusks were impressive. I wish we still had mastodons. Sadly North America lost most of its really large animals.
I didn't realize there had been larger hippos that went extinct. It would have been impressive to see a group of the larger hippos together.
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Doedicurus is just too cute. It is so unlikely looking. Everything about it is funny and interesting. It is just big enough to be impressive and just small enough to be loveable. I really wish we still had these guys around.
The Mastodon was impressive. I just stood there looking at it. It was so much more than I expected.
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I don't know if any museum has examples of all of these animals. I have seen some of them. You really would love seeing them up close. The skeletons are impressive. Even more impressive would be to actually see them when they were alive. The Pleistocene age had some beautiful animals. We have similar species now, but the earlier family members were beautiful.
Herds of the Bison Latifrons would have really shaken the ground. The smaller bison we have now are big enough.
The musk ox in the picture looks like the musk ox we have now. Are they very similar?
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I thought the musk ox looked the same. I have seen a live one up close and they look just like your picture. They do look ancient.
The reindeer look the same too. I don't know if I have seen that kind of antelope.
If the musk ox and the reindeer can survive in modern times I would think that the others could have continued to exist. It is sad that we have lost them. The world would be an amazing place if they were still around.
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