You can see on the picture on your right the Mesonyx, or rather a model of a mesonyx, which is a wolf-like mammal, of the Mesonychidae family, which are linked to... the whales and dolphins. They are their ancestors, which makes the now extinct mesonyx a distant relative of the sea creatures, a great uncle of some sort. I took this picture, of course, during my last trip to the Natural History Museum. It was a few minutes before closing time. I was really happy to find it: I had been obsessed with the mesonyx of the Natural History Museum since I was eleven, when I first saw it. I had forgotten its name, but not its look and not its affiliation with its sea dwelling grand-nephews.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
The Mesonyx
You can see on the picture on your right the Mesonyx, or rather a model of a mesonyx, which is a wolf-like mammal, of the Mesonychidae family, which are linked to... the whales and dolphins. They are their ancestors, which makes the now extinct mesonyx a distant relative of the sea creatures, a great uncle of some sort. I took this picture, of course, during my last trip to the Natural History Museum. It was a few minutes before closing time. I was really happy to find it: I had been obsessed with the mesonyx of the Natural History Museum since I was eleven, when I first saw it. I had forgotten its name, but not its look and not its affiliation with its sea dwelling grand-nephews.
Drôle d'animal qui ressemble plutôt à un raton laveur mélangé à un chien :)
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