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Natural History Museum - San Diego . Steller's Sea Cows were giant dugongs / manatees that only went extinct in the 1700s. the size of orcas they used to live along the entire West Coast.
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (4) baby mammoth
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (5) mammoth
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (6) California tapir
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (7) baby California tapir and capybara, which both lived in California until a few thousand years ago
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (8) the extinct American lion
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (9) the present-day ringtail, relative of raccoons
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (10) smilodon sabertooth and American zebra
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (11) sabertooth, smilodon of North America
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (12) giant ground sloths in California
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (13) giant ground sloth in California
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (15) ground sloth and young in California
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (17) the first ground sloth known to Europe, sent to Spain from Argentina, late 18th c.. we've seen it in Madrid; arrows indicate how it was shown to be a gigantic sloth..
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (18) massive pelvis, tail, and back legs of giant ground sloths
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (19) sloths are xenarthrans along with armadillos and anteaters; they have massive fused extra bones
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (20) preserved ground sloth dung from a cave
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (21) a California tapir
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (22) California tapirs
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (26) baby California tapir
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (27) sliding panels show the composition of mammals in California at different times in deep history
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (28) moving panel of a ground sloth of one time in the Age of Mammals in California
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (29) over the 60 million years of the Age of Mammals in California there have been many changes with ground sloths
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (30) moving panel on ground sloths in California prehistory
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (31) California condor. i saw them in the zoo later.
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (32) the giant steller sea cow, hunted to extinction by the russians in the late 1700s in the North Pacific
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (33). bones of the steller sea cow, the orca-sized dugong - manatee that was made extinct within 30 years of discovery by the russians
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (34) steller sea cows off California
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Natural History Museum - San Diego (35) steller sea cow skull on L and a living dugong skull on R
