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Prehistoric (other than dinosaurs) animals' fossilized skeletons in natural history museums: saber-tooth tiger, giant sloth, prehistoric horses, camels, rhinos, mastodon, dolphin, sea turtle
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Prehistoric animal fossil skeletons: American mastodon, mammut americanum, couple, the only mastodon couple on display anywhere. The Male (on left) mastodon, named the Buesching mastodon, was found near Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1968. The female mastodon, named the Owosso mastodon, lived 11,000 years ago and was found in 1944 on a farm in Rush Township, Shiawassee County, near Owosso, Michigan. This species lived during the Pleistocene Period, 2 million years ago, until 10,000 years ago over a range from Alaska to Central Mexico. The mastodon became the Michigan state fossil in 2002. Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.
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Prehistoric animal fossil skeletons: American mastodon, mammut americanum, couple, the only mastodon couple on display anywhere. The Male (on left) mastodon, named the Buesching mastodon, was found near Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1968. The female mastodon, named the Owosso mastodon, lived 11,000 years ago and was found in 1944 on a farm in Rush Township, Shiawassee County, near Owosso, Michigan. This species lived during the Pleistocene Period, 2 million years ago, until 10,000 years ago over a range from Alaska to Central Mexico. The mastodon became the Michigan state fossil in 2002. Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.

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  • Dinosaur/prehistoric animal skeleton: Moa, a large extinct flightless bird of New Zealand, is completely wingless. Height ranges from 3 to 6 ft. Extinct for last 700 years from hunting and from destruction of eggs. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 2006.
  • Dinosaur skeleton: Pteranodon, Cretaceous Period, is one of the Pterosaurs, often called pterodactyls, which were flying reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. They are considered related to dinosaurs and not to birds. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton fossils: sabertooth Price Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal fossil skeletons: American mastodon, mammut americanum, couple, the only mastodon couple on display anywhere. The Male (on left) mastodon, named the Buesching mastodon, was found near Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1968. The female mastodon, named the Owosso mastodon, lived 11,000 years ago and was found in 1944 on a farm in Rush Township, Shiawassee County, near Owosso, Michigan. This species lived during the Pleistocene Period, 2 million years ago, until 10,000 years ago over a range from Alaska to Central Mexico. The mastodon became the Michigan state fossil in 2002. Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton fossils: Dorudon, an archaeocete whale, is upper skleton. Below is a modern cetacean, the bottlenose dolphin, shown whole at bottom. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton fossils: Bottlenose dolphin is a modern cetacean that appeared 15 million years ago. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.
  • Prehistoric skeleton: Titanothere (Thunderbeast), Brontops, Early Oligocene, 35 million years ago, from White River Group, Colorado. Extinct family of rhinoceros-like animals that roamed both North America and Asia. Horns of bone vs rhinoceros horns of hair. Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton, early American horses: On left is 3-toed Grazing Horse, Neohipparion Leptode, Late Miocene, 6-7 million years ago, from Thousand Creek Formation, Nevado. In foreground is an Early Advanced Horse, Equus simplicidens, from Glenns Ferry Formation, Idaho. On two feet in rear is a Western Horse, Equus "occidentalis" Leidy, Late Pleistocene, 12-40 thousand years ago, from Rancho La Brea, California. Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric skeleton: American Mastodon, mammut americanum, mother and six year old child skeletons taken from the tar of La Brea Tar Pit. Price Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric skeleton: Harlan's Ground Sloth, Glossotherium harlani, was medium-sized ground sloth just over 6 feet tall, weighing 1500 pounds. Ground sloths are primitive animals related to today's armadillos and small tree sloths of Centra/South America. Price Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Sea turtle, protostega gigas, is an ancient relative of today's sea turtles. Late Cretaceous Period, 85 million years ago, found in Niobrara Chalk, Lane County, Kansas. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado December 2005.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Sea turtle, protostega gigas, is an ancient relative of today's sea turtles. Late Cretaceous Period, 85 million years ago, found in Niobrara Chalk, Lane County, Kansas. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado December 2005.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Sea turtle, protostega gigas, is an ancient relative of today's sea turtles. Late Cretaceous Period, 85 million years ago, found in Niobrara Chalk, Lane County, Kansas. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado December 2005.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Short-legged rhinoceros, Teleoceras, Late Miocene, 8 million years ago, Ogallala Group, Kansas. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Ancient Cat, dinictis, attacks running rhinoceros, hyracodon. Middle Oligocene Period, 32 million years ago. Brule Formation, Nebraska. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton fossil: This sabertooth, smilodon californicus, is about the size of a lion and lived about 12,000 years ago. The sabertooth cat group evolved to kill large, slow animals like ground sloths and mammoths. It became extinct along with the animals on which it fed. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Terror Bird, paraphysiornis brasiliensis, 55-2 million years ago, is one of a group of large flightless birds, whose fossils are largely found in South America, from Sao Paulo, Brazil for this fossil. It was a top predators of its time. Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, January 2006.
  • Prehistoric animal skeleton: Menoceras, as described in the exhibit caption, is a small, extinct species of rhinoceros that lived in western North America 21 million years ago. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006.
  • Prehistoric animals: Mesonychids were meat eaters with hoofed feet that lived 63 to 33 million years ago. They are related to today's hoofed mammals, which differ by all being plant eaters. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006.
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