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PALEO BRAIN TEASERS Answers at bottom of page 1) Name a distiguishing feature that separates bison molars from those of a camel or deer. 2) True or false, the real Fred Flinstone was a pioneer in Paleontology. 3) Did saber-tooth tigers really exist? 4) Name a word in paleontology that has 12 letters. 5) Florida had humpless (blank) and hornless (blank). ANSWERS: 1) Bison molars are usually much larger than those of deer and camel, and distinguished by the vertical stylid on the crown of the tooth. 2) Do you really expect us to answer that one? 3) No, but saber-cats or saber-tooth cats existed. Saber-tooth "tiger" is a misnomer, something dreamed up by Fred Flenstone. 4) Paleontology. 5) Humpless camels and hornless rhinos. |
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