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Yunnanosaurus was a large sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could also walk bipedally, and ranged in size from 7 meters (23 feet) long and 2 m (6.5 ft) high to 4 m (13 ft) high in the largest species.
Head like a horse, a bony ridge down its back, and about 40 feet (12 m) long. [55] Storsjön Jämtland Sweden: Europe: Storsjöodjuret: Humped back and a long neck and tail. It has grayish-brown skin with a yellow underbelly, a dog-like head, and a body anywhere between 10 and 42 feet (3-13 m) in length. [56] 1635– Lake Tahoe California ...
There was a horse in the land and a sea-horse in the sea. For that matter there was probably a Pegasus in heaven". [3] The idea of perfect analogies in the fauna of land and sea was considered part of the perfect symmetry [4] of the Creator's plan, offered as the "book of nature" to mankind, for which a text could be found in Job:
List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits, California, United States; List of fossil species in the London Clay, England; List of White Sea biota species by phylum, Russia; Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation, northern United States; Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation, western United States
A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus.The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek hippókampos (ἱππόκαμπος), itself from híppos (ἵππος) meaning "horse" and kámpos (κάμπος) meaning "sea monster" [4] [5] or "sea animal". [6]
The largest prehistoric horse was Equus giganteus of North America. It was estimated to grow to more than 1,250 kg (1.38 short tons) and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) at the shoulders. [144] The largest anchitherine equid was Hypohippus at 403 to 600 kg (888 to 1,323 lb), comparable to large modern domestic horses.
At 40 centimetres (16 in) long, the skull of Lishulong is larger than any other sauropodomorph from the Lufeng Formation. The cervical vertebrae are very large and elongated; the centrum of the first preserved cervical vertebra (the axis) is 16.3 centimetres (6.4 in) long, and the centrum of the last preserved cervical vertebra (the tenth consecutive bone in the series) is 19.9 centimetres (7. ...
The Yunnan horse (Equus yunnanensis) is an extinct species of equine that was present in East Asia during the Pleistocene [1] [2] [3] very likely as a grazer on open tracts of grassland. [1] It was a small equine comparable in size to the modern Przewalski's horse .