Extinction of Species
Extinction of Species
In reviewing the past succession of different forms of ancient life upon the globe, we are reminded of a series of dissolving views, in…
Extinction of Species: Darwin
The Tsetse fly extirpates all horses, dogs, and cattle, from certain districts of South Africa, and a representative species in Paraguay is…
Extinction of Species: Mammoth
FIG. 9. THE MAMMOTH. (After Jukes.) Extinct Post Tertiary Mammalia.
Extinction of Species: Figuier
FIG. 10.-TOOTH OF THE MAMMOTH. (After Figuier.) It seems probable that discoveries of mammoth tusks formed in part the basis for the story…
Extinction of Species: Dawkins
Mr. Boyd Dawkins, in a very exhaustive memoir on this animal, quotes an interesting notice of its fossil ivory having * The Natural History…
Extinction of Species: Europe
Mr. Dawkins, reviewing all the discoveries, considers that its range, at various periods, extended over the whole of Northern Europe, and…
Extinction of Species: Rhinoceros
Mr. Dawkins shows it to have been pre-glacial, glacial, and post-glacial in Britain and in Europe, and, from its relation to the…
Extinction of Species: Palæolithic
The investigation, * made by M. E. Lartet in 1860, of the contents of the Grotto of Aurignac, in the department of the Haute Garonne, from…
Extinction of Species: Pleistocene
In the Pleistocene deposits at Würzburg, in Franconia, * Lyell, Antiquity of Man, p. 185, 2nd edit., 1863. a human finger-bone occurs with…
Extinction of Species: Ursus
THE CAVE-BEAR, Ursus spelœus, of Rosenmüller. The appearance of this species has been preserved to us in the drawing by Palæolithic man…
Extinction of Species: Mastodon
THE MASTODON. - The generic title Mastodon has been applied to a number of species allied to the elephants, but distinguished from them by…
Extinction of Species: Pliocene
The M. arvernensis may be considered as a characteristic Pliocene species in Italy, France, and Europe generally. In Britain it occurs in…
Extinction of Species: Owen
THE IRISH ELK. - The species (Megaceros hibernicus), commonly but erroneously called the Irish Elk, was, as professor Owen* has pointed…
Extinction of Species: Britain
Although its remains have been found most abundantly in Ireland, it was widely distributed over Britain and middle Europe. It has been…
Extinction of Species: Quaternary
Notable Quaternary forms (now extinct) on the American continent are the gigantic sloth-like animals Megatherium, which reached eighteen…
Extinction of Species: African
The HIPPOPOTAMUS.-The Hippopotamus major, now considered identical with the larger of the two African species- H. amphibia, has been found…
Extinction of Species: Mauritius
As examples of total extinction in late years, we may mention the dodo, the solitaire, and species allied to them, in the islands of…
Extinction of Species: Rhytina
FIG. 17. RHYTINA STELLERI. (After J. Fr. Brandt.) Steller's Sea-cow (Rhytina Stelleri of Cuvier) was a mammal allied to the Manatees and…
Extinction of Species: Wales
Of local extinction we may note in our own island the cases of the beaver, the bear, the wolf, the wild cattle, the elk, the wild boar, the…
Extinction of Species: Australia
In South Africa, elephants and all other large game are being steadily exterminated within the several colonies. In Australia, we find that…
Extinction of Species: Australian
The introduction of the Dingo, by the Australian blacks in their southward migration, is supposed to have caused the extinction of the…
Extinction of Species: China
We learn from incidental passages in the Bamboo Books* that the rhinoceros, which is now unknown in China, formerly extended throughout…
Extinction of Species: Kingsmill
Mr. Kingsmill even suggests that the species referred to were the mammoth and the Siberian rhinoceros (R. tichorhinus). M. Chabas*…