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Another post of today. Here I would like to talk about a member of the only extinct lineage of marine mammals (Desmostylia). Meet Neoparadoxia from the Miocene of North America, like most of its relatives it might have been fully aquatic.
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There once existed a Palaeomerycid (extinct family of ruminants closely related to Giraffids) named after one of the most iconic Star Wars characters, Padme Amidala. Meet Xenokeryx amidalae, known from the Mid-Miocene of Spain.
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Felt the urge to show appreciation to yet another group of Afrotherians, the Sirenians (dugongs and manatees) . This time I present to you the earliest member of Sirenia, meet Prorastomus from the Early Eocene of Jamaica. Sirenian evolution is quite interesting
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Since Hyraxes are very awesome. I present to you yet another extinct Pliohyracid. Meet Antilohyrax, a hyrax from the Late Eocene of Fayum, Egypt. A hyrax that resembled a gazelle, had tusks and a low metabolism for an animal its size. It was a cursorial browser.
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Iranotherium morgani, an extinct genus of Rhino from the late Miocene, and a relative of Elasmotherium. The only known rhinoceros with rugosity on each zygomatic arch of the male individual. As evident in this individual from the Late miocene of Linxia basin.
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