Saturday, February 15, 2025

Lifeform

 Another look at the ancestors of the modern whale, where I left off yesterday.


Notharctus is an early primate, and has a look rather like a lemur.


A second floor platform allows for a different view of those casts.


Up here are some of the mammals, long extinct, of the post-dinosaur era. They are gathered as reproductions in a central area.


And they are here in fossil form.


Megacerops had a lot in common with the rhino.


Hoplopheneus was similar to a cat, though true cats wouldn't evolve until 17 million years ago. It was a hunter.


The boar is archaeotherium, which went extinct 23 million years ago.


Back down below and among the dinosaur fossils again. Fossils might include plants.


Hesperornis was a flightless bird that hunted in the water.

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