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Published: 2019-01-29 22:09:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1974; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 0
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(Let's have a lunch together)Somwhere in Japan, the very beginning of Pliocene. Odobenin walrus Protodobenus japonicus foraging side by side with a couple of young sea cows Hydrodamalis cuesta. Protoodbenus was morphologicaly similar to modern walrus but smaller and more primitive in certain dental features (including much shorter tusks). H. cuesta was probably ancestor of more specialised H. gigas.
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Β This is completely whimsical and by no means factual, but it amuses me imagine that creature with its fateful of mud was aiming at the seaweed but didn't QUITE hit the target ...Β Β
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