PIX4664277: Elasmotherium - Artist's view of two male Elasmotherium confronting each other in the steppe. This gigantic Eurasian herbivorous mammal lived about 1 million years ago. A pair of male Elasmotherium confront one another on the ancient steppe of what is today Southern Russia. Elasmotherium had longer legs than today's smaller modern rhinos, probably enabling it to gallop like a horse / Bridgeman Images
PIX4664346: Doedicurus and Eremotherium - Doedicurus clavicaudatus is a glyptodon, a giant tattoo, that lived during pleistocene until 11,000 years ago. It was three metres long and weighed two tons. Behind it is an eremotherium. Prehistoric glyptodonts of the genus Doedicurus graze on grassy plains 25,000 years ago in what is today South America. In the background is a giant ground sloth of the genus Eremotherium. With a turtle-like shell five feet tall and weighing over two tons, Doedicurus was the largest known glyptodontid, an extinct family of heavy-armored herbivores related to modern armadillos. Doedicurus carried a large spiked tail that could have helped protect it from large predators and other Doedicurus. Eremotherium was a Megatheriid that grew to 20 feet long and weighed up to three tons / Bridgeman Images
PIX4664384: Brontotheres and birds - Brontotherium with birds - Artist's view of Brontotheres (Brontotherium) in a landscape of South Dakota 35 million years ago. Brontotherium wander the lush Late Eocene landscape of South Dakota 35 million years ago. Modern rhinoceroses have a symbiotic relationship with birds (variously known as oxpeckers or tick birds) that eat parasites they find on the rhino's skin and noisily warn of danger. No doubt similar symbiotic relationships existed between birds and the megafauna of the Eocene / Bridgeman Images
PIX4664915: Pyrenees views by shuttle 2001 - STS108 - 10/12/2001 The high spine of the Pyrenees Mountains at the French and Spanish border is snow covered in this 70 mm frame, photographed from the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The highest point of the Pyrenees is 3404 meters, though outside the area pictured. Snow - free foothills of the Pyrenees in Aquitaine (France) appear at the bottom (north is to the bottom of the view). According to geologists studying the STS - 108 photo collection, the Pyrenees range began forming about 320 million years ago and was strongly uplifted again during early stages of Eurasian - African plate collision. Complex folded strata on the Spanish side (near Pamplona) appear as bends and waves in foothill rock across the top of the view. Tin, tungsten, talc, fluorite, barium and gold have been mined from the mountains, and petroleum is produced from the adjacent Aquitaine sedimentary basin / Bridgeman Images
PIX4664996: L'ouest de la France vue par satellite - 2008 - Western France as seen from satellite 2008 - Image de l'ouest de la France obtained on 11 February 2008 by the European satellite Envisat. This Envisat image features western France, including the regions of Brittany, Western Loire, Normandy and Loire Valley, located in Western Europe. France's capital city Paris is visible as the gray area in the upper right hand corner. This image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 11 February 2008 working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 meters / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665017: L'ouest de la France vue par satellite 2008 - Western France as seen from satellite 2008 - Image de l'ouest de la France obtained on 11 February 2008 by the European satellite Envisat. View of the western France obtained by the European satellite Envisat on Feb 11 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665040: The Seine estuary - Seine estuary, France - The Seine estuary with the port of Le Havre, the bridge of Normandy and the city of Honfleur, seen from the International Space Station in March 2007. Seine estuary with the Harbor of Le Havre seen from the international space station in march 2007 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4663924: Carcharodontosaurus - View of a Carcharodontosaurus (Carcharodontosaurus saharicus), a gigantic carnivorous dinosaur that lived between 98 and 93 million years ago during the Cretace period. The huge carnivorous dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus (Carcharodontosaurus saharicus), lived between 98 and 93 million years ago / Bridgeman Images
PIX4664526: Paraceratherium and child - Paraceratherium and child - A female Paraceratherium and her little seen 30 million years ago in northwestern China. The Paraceratherium was a gigantic terrestrial mammal nearly six metres high and weighing 20 tons. Apparently to modern Rhinoceros, it disappeared 23 million years ago. A Paraceratherium mother grazes on leaves and twigs of a poplar tree 30 million years ago during the Rupelian Stage of the Oligocene Epoch in northwest China. Paraceratherium is believed to be the largest mammal ever to have walked the Earth. Adult Paraceratherium are estimated to have been 18 ft tall at the shoulder with a maximum raised head height of 26 ft. They may have weighed as much as 20 tons. Related to modern rhinoceroses, Paraceratherium became extinct about 23 million years ago / Bridgeman Images
PIX4678454: Andean Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo - Andean Flamingo and Chilean flamingo - Andean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus andinus), on the left, and Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) on the right. Laguna Chaxa, Atacama, Chile. Andean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus andinus), left, and Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), at right. Laguna Chaxa, Atacama, Chile / Bridgeman Images