New Genus, Species of Desmostylia from Aleutians (IMAGE)

Southern Methodist University

New Genus, Species of Desmostylia from Aleutians

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Paleontologists Dr. Louis Jacobs (right), Southern Methodist University, and Dr. Anthony Fiorillo (left), Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, discuss 23 million-year-old Desmostylia fossils from the Aleutian Islands. The fossils intensify the mystery surrounding the toothy, hippopotamus-sized mammal unique to the North Pacific. An oddball creature, it suction-fed shoreline vegetation.

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(Hillsman Jackson, SMU)

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