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The pig's teeth are the same in number as those of the ancestral primitive typidentate mammal, and their form is near to that of the ancestor's teeth. Now I come to the extraordinary interest of Miss Bate's goat-like or antelope-like animal from Majorca. Hence the name given to this little marvel by Miss Bate "Myotragus," "the rat-goat."
Among living rhinoceroses the Indian species have these two front teeth, but smaller, whilst the square-mouthed African rhinoceros has none at all! This helps us, as a parallel, to understand "the strange case" of Myotragus. But, of course, the rhinoceroses are a distinct line of animal descent remote from Ruminants.
The wonderful thing is that the bones found by Miss Bate are light and well preserved, evidently not very ancient probably late Pleistocene in age. Drawing of the skull of the rat-toothed goat, Myotragus the new extinct beast discovered in limestone fissures in the island of Majorca by Miss Bate. 1. Side view of the skull and lower jaw. 2.
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