Charles Darwin and his Toxodon

PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaurus fav.me/d83zg9s 

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56 

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops fav.me/d8bp0tr

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr

PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

PART 20 John Bell Hatcher and his Torosaurus fav.me/d9hq8sm

Oi! Stop eating my journal!

I don’t think Charles Darwin needs any introduction! But the Toxodon might

The Toxodon was a hoofed mammal that lived around 1 million years ago in South America. It had three toes, a very muscular body and is thought to have been one of the most common animals of its time. Because of the position of its nostrils it was generally believed that Toxodon lived amphibious like a Hippo, however this is under dispute.

Charles Darwin was one of the first to discover Toxodon fossils when he came to South America. In Uruguay he purchased a scull from a local farmer and described the creature in his journal calling it “one of the strangest animals, ever discovered”.

The discovery of the Toxodon and other related animals might have influenced Darwins theory of Evolution. The Species Toxodon darwini is named in his honor.

It’s pretty obvious that I based my depiction of Darwin on this picture:

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Special thanks to Nigel Marven for bringing the Toxodon to my Attention

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