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Aurignacian-Gravettian sculpture

Magdalenian cave painting of a bison

Prehistoric cave painting in Lascaux Cave, France, showing a large, dark-outlined animal resembling an aurochs or bison, with yellow and brown shading on a rock surface.

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Mechta-el-Arbi race Chancelade skeleton Pleistocene Epoch Homo sapiens fossil Australopithecus Homo erectus Neanderthal Homo habilis Australopithecus sediba Denisovan Homo floresiensis Homo heidelbergensis Boskop skull Homo naledi

Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

Animal Factoids

Lion (panthera leo)

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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