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To: PIF
Shown: Primelephas gomphotheroides became extinct 23 million years ago, not Wooley Mammoths which became extinct 11,000 years ago and is the species under concideration

A little correction for you. Shown: Mumakil, the fictional elephant-like creatures described by J.R.R. Tolkein decades before primelephas were presented in scientific literature.

35 posted on 01/18/2011 10:16:00 AM PST by upstanding
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To: upstanding
Not a correction, but an enlightenment - thanks! Now we know from Tolkein’s prescience that Middle Earth was existent during the Neogene between 23 and 2 million years ago. Now if we could further pin down the correct Age or Ages....
48 posted on 01/19/2011 3:24:04 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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