
	Where results make sense

Topic: Chalicothere

In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Chalicothere
		Chalicotheres were related to the horses and tapirs, and evolved in the mid Eocene from small, forest-living animals rather like the early horses.
		By the end of the Oligocene, chalicotheres had divided into two distinct groups one lived in open areas and browsed like goats, but the other was adapted to woodland and was more like a modern gorilla.
		These chalicotheres had no front teeth in the upper jaw, and even the back teeth show little wear from use, and so they must have been fussy eaters picking only the newest, freshest shoots and putting them straight into the back of their mouths like modern pandas.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/449.shtml (269 words)

	BBC - Science - Beasts - Chalicothere Factfile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There are two types of chalicothere - this kind shambled along with most of their weight on their short but strong hind legs.
		The long front legs had enormously long, curved claws which meant the chalicothere couldn't put its font feet flat on the ground, and instead had to walk on its knuckles.
		These chalicotheres had no front teeth in the upper jaw, and even the back teeth show little wear from use, and so they must have been fussy eaters - picking only the newest, freshest shoots and putting them straight into the back of their mouths like modern pandas.
	nrk.no /programmer/beasts/factfiles/factfiles/chalicothere.shtml?... (147 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		The Chalicothere was a sloped back animal related to horses, which had large claws instead of hooves.
		The general appearance of the Chalicothere does fit that of the Nandi Bear, it is even thought that the Chalicothere could stand upright.
		Unlike the Nandi Bear, the Chalicothere was a strict herbivore.
	www.cryptozoology.com /cryptids/nandi_bear.php (2697 words)

	Research and Collections
		Among the discoveries is an ankle bone (astragalus) of a chalicothere (lower photograph), an extinct odd-toed herbivore with claws.
		This is a tantalizing find because chalicotheres, usually browsers of tree leaves using their long claws to reach up, are always associated with tall trees.
		The chalicotheres, therefore, are evidence of an ancient environment that no longer exists today, presumably because the elevation was much lower and the climate more equable at the time when these extinct mammals lived.
	www.nhm.org /research/news_field.htm (433 words)

	BBC - Walking with Beasts - Ancylotherium Detailed Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Answer: The chalicothere in the previously shown programme 3 was of the knuckle-walking group that became extinct.
		Programme 4's Ancylotherium is a chalicothere from the group that didn't walk on its knuckles.
		It was the last surviving chalicothere and became extinct about 2 million years ago.
	www6.nrk.no /programmer/beasts/evidence/prog4/page4_2.shtml (264 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Animals!
		A chalicothere is a large creature resembling a cross between a forest sloth and a horse.
		Chalicotheres attack only if their lives are threatened or their territories are invaded.
		The chalicothere can use its knuckles to move at a rate of 20 ft., but cannot attack in any such round.
	www.enworld.org /printthread.php?t=51219 (1919 words)

	Miocene Fauna
		It belonged to an ancient herbivore group called the chalicotheres.
		Chalicotheres are divided into two groups the knuckle walkers and those like Moropus who walked flat footed.
		Although not numerous Chalicotheres survived until the last Ice Age or perhaps longer.
	www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com /miocene.html (737 words)

	Reunion At Kemmerer
		The first to arrive was Hyoummnin, her local second in command and representative to the prolve clades in the Fluff nebula development.
		Hyoummnin was an provolved and augmented chalicothere, (Moropus sapiens), with five-fingered hands instead of claws on the front limbs.
		With her was a multibodied Solarian cyborg, Daneel, with twenty identical robot extra bodies and a single consciousness.
	www.orionsarm.com /stories/Reunion_at_Kemmerer.html (922 words)

	After while, crocodile... (Spr 92) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although fossil evidence indicates that most animals inhabiting Delaware during the Miocene era would be recognizable today, some-like the horse and the whale-were smaller and still others are now extinct.
		Because grasses had not developed yet, the small horses, rhinos and the chalicotheres probably browsed on the trees much as deer do today, he says.
		Fossils of both land and marine species are mingled in one site because storms and floods carried the remains of land animals downriver into the ocean, he points out.
	www.udel.edu /PR/Messenger/92/3/4.html (692 words)

	UMass Amherst: Biology Department -> Faculty -> Margery C. Coombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Much of my work has emphasized chalicotheres, an unusual group of clawed perissodactyls.
		Careful morphological comparisons have elucidated the worldwide systematics and zoogeography of this group; functional studies of a variety of extant and fossil clawed herbivores have clarified chalicothere mode of life; and an analysis of a fossil assemblage in which these often rare animals predominate has aided understanding their ecological associations.
		Graduate students under my direction have studied other perissodactyl groups (amynodont rhinoceroses, brontotheres), artiodactyls (peccaries) and related topics of their own choosing.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/faculty/mccc.phtml (321 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Scripture and imagination show a whimsical God - comical scriptures - Brief Article
		So I invoked the name of the only kind of chalicothere I knew of from that part of the world.
		Did Daryl Domning say that?" You see, at that point in my career I had already established myself as a specialist in marine mammals and I was not generally noted for expertise in land-dwelling creatures like this.
		So his surprise was only partly feigned, because even though the bone in question really came from a different kind of chalicothere, my answer was close enough for the immediate purpose.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_6_35/ai_53460431 (1010 words)

	Agate Fossil Beds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Another large animal that once lived here was Dinohyus, a giant entelodont related more closely to cows and pigs than to carnivores.
		This huge scavenger-whose skull alone was about three feet long and whose tracks have been found in the waterhole mud-broke bones with its enormous teeth (its bite marks occur on chalicothere limb bones).
		Discoveries in the 1980s include the fossil remains of beardogs and other carnivores and their dens, one of the few paleontological sites of this type in the world.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/habitat/agate/fossils.htm (449 words)

	Bryan Adrian's DRUID DRAMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Reply by: Chalicothere Revival -- Aug 18, 2004 17:40:38
		He could get on the phone and try tele-panhandling :) He could also stage a reading of the play in his garage or living room and get funding to stage it in a small space like most playwrites who would also be simultaneously sending the script out for input.
		Reply by: Chalicothere Revival -- Aug 18, 2004 17:40:29
	www.science-one.com /new-5592849-4250.html (6825 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)