Rivers of Time by L. Sprague de Camp

Author:L. Sprague de Camp [de Camp, L. Sprague]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555940232
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 1993-12-30T06:00:00+00:00

Be that as it may, this cat took one look, gave a kind of spitting yowl, and bounded away, dragging a piece of its half-eaten prey with it.

"What pity!" murmured Huang, looking at the remains of the prey animal. "It is one of the oreodonts, or merycoidodontids if one must be technically precise. My main purpose in coming to this period is to study their digestive systems, but this one has been too badly torn up to furnish much information."

"What about their digestive systems?" I asked.

"One of the debates among my fellow paleontologists is which of the many lines of Cenozoic artiodactyls—" Excuse me, Miss Bergstrom, but that's how Doctor Huang talked, like a textbook. He meant split-hooved animals, like sheep, cows, and deer. "—of Cenozoic artiodactyls developed the multiple stomachs of ruminants and which did not. The oreodonts are thought by some to have developed this feature, and by others not. One scientist called them 'ruminating hogs.' The question cannot be settled by fossils, since the soft tissues are almost never preserved."

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