Reconstruction of a Last Interglacial Temperate Landscape (IMAGE)

Aarhus University

Reconstruction of a Last Interglacial Temperate Landscape

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This is a reconstruction of a Last Interglacial temperate landscape (Germany) with typical Late Pleistocene European large herbivores such as the now extinct straight-tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus), an extinct rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), as well as the still common roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

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Illustrator: Elke Gröning.

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