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Denver Museum special exhibit:  Extreme Mammals.

      This is/was one of the Denver Museum's special exhibits  If you were fortunate enough to see it first hand, congratulations.  If not, or even if you did, here is a chance to enjoy it for the first time or again (if you were lucky enough to see it when it was here)..

      As with the other Denver Museum pages my intent here is not to go into verbal depth on anything.  But, to let the photos and their sub-titles speak for themselves.  We add new items and information, to the site, monthly.  Be sure to look for page links.  Over half the site (and ALL of the really cool non-product information-like this page) is buried in these page links.  So, just like at the museum, look for all the little things (links) that might otherwise be overlooked.  Enjoy!!!

 

Denver Museum's Extreme Mammals banner.

What makes a mammal.

A Colorado mammal.

Horns:  Rhinos to rodents.

Awesome antlers.

Incisors.

Small body, huge bite.

50 million year old hedge hog - Pholidocercus hassiacus.

The same only different-a whale that walked on land.

Grasping tail.

Bat mystery solved - Onychonycterus finneyi.

Interatheriidae,Eornorphippus/horse,Protypotherium/rabbit.

Lost.

 

 

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Life size Incricotherium replica.

Ida - the only known primate from the Messel site.

Mammals with pouches.

Horns:  Rhinos to rodents.

Awesome antlers.

Flexible front teeth.

Baleen.

Big brains.

Extreme armor.

Walk this way.

Polar paradise.

Separate paths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

The biggest mammals.

Ida - Darwinius masillae.

Egg laying mammals.

Why evolve horns?

Big nose - Mackrowchonia.

Molars and canines.

Evolution of Baleen whales.

The same only different-a whale that walked on land.

Mammal differences - armor and venom.

Walk this way.

All in the family.

Missing:  massive mammals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Becoming mammals. .

Mammals that ate dinosaurs.

Evolution solution.

Head gear - head liners.

Big nose - Mackrowchonia.

Chinese water deer - Hydropotes incrimis.

Baleen whale.

The same only different-a whale that walked on land.

Mammals move.

Taking wing.

Unlikely relations.

Missing:  massive mammals.