#proboscid

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350000 years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy Schwarzwald, spring has come to the mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of steppe mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the Oos river, while a Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks. With the harsh ice age winter in retreat for a few months, a flock of greylag geese migrates north, a buzzard hunts, and a small pack of wolves observe a herd of steppe bison and some roe deer.

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An african elephant in the flesh, next to an asian elephant's skeleton. It really shows off how enormous african elephants are.

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Deinotherium. Their tusks always give them very strange-old-man vibes to me. It feels like the kind of beard a 70 year old biker would have.

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Gomphotherium, two dwarf elephants, and a mammoth.

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Deinotherium!

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Mammoth diorama and a mammoth skeleton.

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The mammoth outside the Paris natural history museum. There's a very outdated Stegosaurus I didn't get a pic of too!

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Gomphotherium.