Deinotherium (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Deinotherium

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Artist Heinrich Harder's illustration of the extinct Deinotherium, an ancient relative to modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene 20 million years ago and lived until the Early Pleistocene, around 2 million years ago. Harder completed the illustration in the early 1900s using fossils as his model.

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Heinrich Harder

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