"Ungulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suborder of primitive ungulate mammals, taking its name from the short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with five toes each, and supported massive pillar-like limbs. The brain-cavity was extremely small, and insignificant in comparison ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... these questions may consult the works of Ruetimeyer, Gaudry, Kowalewsky, Marsh, and the writer of the present article. It must suffice, in this place, to say that the successive forms of the Equine type have been fully worked out; while those of nearly all the other existing types of Ungulate mammals and of the Carnivora have been almost as closely followed through the Tertiary deposits; the gradations between birds and reptiles have been traced; and the modifications undergone by the Crocodilia, from the Triassic epoch to ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley
... its neck elongated for this purpose, through natural selection and the effects of increased use. In South Africa the competition for browsing on the higher branches of the acacias and other trees must be between giraffe and giraffe, and not with the other ungulate animals. ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... this one kind alone could have its neck elongated for this purpose, through natural selection and the effects of increased use. In South Africa the competition for browsing on the higher branches of the acacias and other trees must be between giraffe and giraffe, and not with the other ungulate animals. ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... in form those of the true Ruminants. The genera Dichobune and Xiphodon, of the Middle and Upper Eocene, are closely related to Anoplotherium, but are more slender and deer-like in form. No example of the great Ruminant group of the Ungulate Quadrupeds has as yet been detected in deposits of ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson |
