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The first well known muskox, the "shrub-ox" Euceratherium, crossed to North America over an early version of the Bering Land Bridge two million years ago and prospered in the American southwest and Mexico. Euceratherium was larger yet more lightly built than modern muskoxen, resembling a giant sheep with massive horns, and preferred hilly ...
Unlike today's Arctic and tundra-adapted muskoxen, with their long, shaggy coats, Bootherium was physically adapted to a range of less frigid climates, and appears to have been the only species of muskox to have evolved in and remain restricted to the North American continent (the Arctic muskox's range is circumpolar, and includes the northern reaches of Eurasia as well as North America). [3]
Ling-Ling (bottom) being playfully nipped by Hsing-Hsing after mating, March 18, 1983. Ling-Ling (Chinese: 玲玲, 1969–1992) and Hsing-Hsing (simplified Chinese: 兴兴; traditional Chinese: 興興, 1970–1999) were two giant pandas given to the United States as gifts by the government of China following President Richard Nixon's visit in 1972.
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Tectonic and magmatic features associated with the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province. Red star shows the initial Mackenzie plume zone relative to the lithosphere; partial black circle is the estimate of the zone of plume influence on stress-field orientation; dark lines are dikes of the Mackenzie swarm; CRB indicates the Coppermine River basalts; M indicates the Muskox intrusion.
The peninsula is the site of the last known naturally occurring muskox outside of North America, which died out about 2,000 years ago. [3] They were successfully reintroduced in 1975. [4] The population grew to 2,500 in 2002, increasing to 6,500 in 2010. [5]
Tracked military snow machines (Penguins) on ice during RCAF Operation Muskox, Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, 1946. Operation Musk Ox was an 81-day [1] military exercise organized by the Canadian Army in 1946. It involved the 48 members of the Army driving 11 4½-ton Canadian-designed snowmobiles ("Penguins"). [2]
Affia created Universe 528, his world of sci-fi graphic novels and web-based motion comics, through his company, Sensi’il Studios, which he calls Iowa’s first Black-owned comic book company ...