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Updated: May 21, 2025
For years previously bones of quadrupeds of the genera elephant, rhinoceros, bear, hyaena, stag, ox, horse, and others, had been collected there, and sent from time to time to Paris to be examined and named by Cuvier, who had described them in his Ossements Fossiles.
This, to be sure, was nothing more than William Smith had tried all along to establish regarding lower forms of life; but flesh and blood monsters appeal to the imagination in a way quite beyond the power of mere shells; so the announcement of Cuvier's discoveries aroused the interest of the entire world, and the Ossements Fossiles was accorded a popular reception seldom given a work of technical science a reception in which the enthusiastic approval of progressive geologists was mingled with the bitter protests of the conservatives.
In 1816 the famous Ossements Fossiles, describing these novel objects, was published, and vertebrate paleontology became a science.
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