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Ovibos moschatus Blainville, 1816 - fossil musk ox skull from Siberia, Russia. (public display, Yakutsk Public Unified Museum of History & Northern Folk Culture, Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia)

This is a partial skull of a prehistoric specimen of the Arctic musk ox, Ovibos moschatus. The species is still alive today, living at high latitudes in North America. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, the species also occurred at high latitudes in northern Asia.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae


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Author James St. John
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by James St. John at https://flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/33288375030. It was reviewed on 28 March 2017 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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