10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGATHERIAN»
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we can test tbc conjecture that the injuries in question were inflicted by another
megatherioid animal, diminish its probability. " There is no certain or conclusive
evidence that human beings coexisted with the megatherian animals: but, ...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
It will at once occur to the reader that these Megatherian animals must from their
habits of life have been unusually liable to blows from heavy falling bodies ; and,
to meet such danger, they were provided with a peculiar cranial organization.
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The Quarterly Review (London)
There is no certain or conclusive evidence that human beings coexisted with the
Megatherian animals ; but assuming a primaeval race of Indians to have disputed
the lordship of the American forests with the edentate giants, and to have ...
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Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth: ...
Other recent mammals offer, in this bone, no comparisons by which further light
can be thrown on the peculiarities of the Megatherian race. The astragalus and
distal articulation of the leg-bones being coadapted, the principal modifications of
...
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quarterly review. vol. xc.
There is no certain or conclusive evidence that human beings coexisted with the
Megatherian animals ; but assuming a primaeval race of Indians to have disputed
the lordship of the American forests with the edentate giants, and to have ...
6
Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, ...
Bradypus, the three-toed sloth or ai, is relegated to its own (nominally
megatherian) superfamily Bradypodoidea in most recent classifications. There
are three extant species (Gardner. 1993): B. tridacnlus (S. A. only), 6. torquatus (
S. A. only), ...
Charles A. Woods, Florence E. Sergile, 2001
Because in 1 959, Meyer changed adults-only cinema forever with The Immoral
Mr. Teas, introducing women onscreen whom he described as "canti levered," "
pneumatic," "buxotic," and, my personal favorite, "megatherian." In other words ...
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Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat
For someone afraid of rats, a Megatherian was the worst possible thing to find in
one's bedroom. It was shaggy and green with long, black, polished claws. Its
orange teeth protruded from each side of its jaws like the tusks of a wild boar.
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American Journal of Science
When we seek to apply the same hypothesis to explain the apparently
contemporaneous extinction of the gigantic leaf-eating Megatherian of South
America, the geological phenomena of that continent appear to negative the
occurrence of ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
Our present knowledge of the extinct Megatherian quadrupeds leads us to
contemplate the natural affinities of the Sloths from a vantage ground not attained
before, yet essential to a correct and comprehensive view of them. The tardigrade
...
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