Prehistoric mammals

Hi everyone!

I've seen that some of your collections have prehistoric mammals, which I think are fascinating. In 2010 I went to the San Diego Museum of Natural History in California. They had dioramas with life-sized models of prehistoric mammals from the local area. I've posted my photos below. I'd be interested to see anyone else's pictures of prehistoric mammals.

Cheers

Ian
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An early carnivore:

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An early odd-toed hoofed mammal, like a tapir:

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An early primate:

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A Dyseolemur species - another early primate:

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Protoreodon walshi - an early even-toed hoofed mammal:

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Parvicornus occidentalis - a type of brontothere:

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This life-sized model of an American lion was also in the museum:

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wow! thanks for sharing these fantastic photos, they look amazing especially the lion!!

Absolutly wonderful!! Congrats that you had saw this!!

Taylcoel wrote:

wow! thanks for sharing these fantastic photos, they look amazing especially the lion!!

I'm glad you like them, Coel!

Ian

Thank You very much for sharing photos of such fascinating creatures. I love especially those "tapir like" ones

widukind wrote:

Absolutly wonderful!! Congrats that you had saw this!!

Ich bin froh, dass sie so wie sie, zu! (I'm glad you like them, too!)

(Hi Andreas - is that translation correct?)

Ian

I agree with everyone : They are GORGEOUS !!!!

Early mammals are enormously fascinating, IMHO

It is fun to see those early primates, - almost like lemurs, aren`t they ?

Thankyou for the wonderful photoes

ana wrote:

Thank You very much for sharing photos of such fascinating creatures. I love especially those "tapir like" ones

My pleasure, Ana. I've just gone to your website and I see that you've made some beautiful tapir models. I absolutely love baby tapirs, their shape and pattern - they're one of my favourite animals to look at.

Ian

Ian wrote:

ana wrote:

Thank You very much for sharing photos of such fascinating creatures. I love especially those "tapir like" ones

My pleasure, Ana. I've just gone to your website and I see that you've made some beautiful tapir models. I absolutely love baby tapirs, their shape and pattern - they're one of my favourite animals to look at.

Ian

Thank You for Your words Great to know we share the love to tapirs

Thanks for the photos Ian.
I love the lion and the rhino

wow, that american lion is spectacular, my first impression was that it was real.
Thanks heaps for sharing

Great pics Ian, thank you

I would like to see more things like that in French or European museum, IMHO we are still a bit too much on "showing some bones" displays...

I would like to see some bonsai of this mammal replicas on my shelves

These are beautiful, the artist captured the face on the lion perfectly! Ian thanks for showing these, they are amazing