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Straight-tusked elephant

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This is my last proboscidean reconstruction from my last published paper*: the great Palaeoloxodon antiquus. It was the most massively built large elephant species ever existed. This particular individual was rather small, although, despite his advanced age, it was still growing animal. 152-E9 looks like the so-called “Stuttgart morph”.

*Larramendi A., Palombo M.R. & Marano F. (2017). Reconstructing the life appearance of a Pleistocene giant: size, shape, sexual dimorphism and ontogeny of Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Proboscidea: Elephantidae) from Neumark-Nord 1 (Germany). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 56(3): 299-317.
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I imagine how slow this large and powerful mammal would’ve been, maybe going at 12 mph