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Word: macrauchenia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh-eater called phororhacos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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