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  • About a dozen of us gathered .... on April 6, 1984, to partake of Bison priscus stew.

    Well- Aged Meat 2006

  • About a dozen of us gathered .... on April 6, 1984, to partake of Bison priscus stew.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Quaternary, _Elephas antiquus_ giving origin to the Indian elephant, _E. priscus_ to the African.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Lower jaw of a Promammal (Dryolestes priscus), from the

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • [Footnote 243: 'Quae circa referendos curiae priscus ordo designavit.'] 42.

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • Rutimeyer, the ancient bison (Bos priscus) of Europe was identical with the existing American buffalo.

    Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

  • Ursus priscus are not extinct races of the living brown bear (Ursus arctos).

    The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

  • Two of these species, however, he has always considered as doubtful, Stegodon ganesa, probably a mere variety of one of the others, and Elephas priscus of Goldfuss, founded partly on specimens of the African elephant, assumed by mistake to be fossil, and partly on some aberrant forms of E. antiquus.

    The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

  • wooly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), steppe bison (Bison priscus), and the occasional mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and most awesome of all, lots of cannibalized cave hyenas.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Sarah Werning 2007

  • wooly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), steppe bison (Bison priscus), and the occasional mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and most awesome of all, lots of cannibalized cave hyenas.

    More hyena pics Sarah Werning 2007

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