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The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. [1] [2] [3] For around two months the debate occurred in front of the French Academy of Sciences. The debate centered primarily on animal structure; Cuvier asserted that animal structure was ...
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ ˈ k j uː v i eɪ /; [1] French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". [2]
Crocodilus biporcatus proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1807 were 23 saltwater crocodile specimens from India, Java and Timor. [14] Crocodilus biporcatus raninus proposed by Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel in 1844 was a crocodile from Borneo. [15] Crocodylus porosus australis proposed by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala in 1953 was a specimen ...
Histoire naturelle des poissons is a 22-volume treatment of ichthyology published in 1828–1849 by the French savant Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and his student and successor Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). It was a systematic compendium of the fishes of the world known at that time, and treated altogether 4 514 species of fishes, of ...
Initially considered as fossils coming from crocodiles or whales, it was from 1800 that Adriaan Gilles Camper identified them as coming from a large marine reptile sharing affinities with monitor lizards, conclusions shared by Georges Cuvier in a 1808 study.
Molly Ebersold, Wikimedia Commons A man is recovering from a crocodile attack in an Australian hospital after the reptile lunged at him and tried to drag him into a creek while he was fishing at a ...
An 85-year-old woman has been killed in Florida after being attacked by a 10-foot alligator after she fought to wrestle her dog from its jaws.. The attack happened on the banks of a lake at the ...
Cuvier, basing the name on its apparent lack of suitable arms and canines for offensive attacks, erected the name Anoplotherium. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The genus name Anoplotherium means "unarmed beast" and is a compound of the Greek words αν- ( an , 'not'), ὅπλον ( hóplon , 'armor, large shield'), and θήρ ( thēr , 'beast, wild animal').