woolly hippopotamus
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A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or…
A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
- Above, the woolly hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Major) of western Europe; below, the southern elephant (Elephas Meridionalis). Remains of both are found in the riverdrifts of France and Spain[…]
- It is true that the "woolly hippopotamus", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light "mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone[…]
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