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...newly discovered ox possesses extremely primitive physical features which place the animal close to the ancient ancestral line of modern domestic cattle and as a form which probably branched off the main cattle family stem, before the bison, yak, zebu, gaur, and bantin about ten million years back, in the middle pliocene period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Reports Addition of New Fossil To Museum Collection; Kouprey Ancestor of Cow | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animal-Man | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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