That eohippus died away into forms with no aptitude for survival. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
He was eohippus, an attractive small animal about twelve inches high at the. shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The Valley somehow has various beasties from pre-history including the eohippus and the allosaurus. From Wordnik.com. [More fun with Harryhausen] Reference
But a new class of horse stepped forward, shouldering its way between a sturdy Morgan and a deerlike eohippus. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
Unlike gastornids the ones you always see in kids books flogging the dead eohippus, phorusrhacids had runner's legs. From Wordnik.com. [Big Bird] Reference
But the thing that marked eohippus and made one suspect that this family of animals might be headed in some important direction was the feet. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
But what gained greatest attention, especially from ranchers in the west, was his discovery in subsequent years of handsome skeletons of four of the progenitors of the horse: eohippus, mesohippus, miohippus and the crucial, determinative merychippus. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
"Paleohippus, " of the many capacities, eohippus of the subtle form, merychippus with the horse-like appearance, pliohippus with the single hoof'these attributes persisted; there were dozens of other variations equally interesting which died out because they did not contribute to the final form. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The dinosaurs were destined to disappear from earth, while this little animal would survive, its descendants and collaterals populating the entire world, first with prehistoric mammals themselves destined to extinction'titanotheres, mastodons, eohippus-and subsequently with animals man would know, such as the mammoth, the lion, the elephant, the bison and the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Eagle ... you don't say "no transitions", so what transitions do you agree with ... eohippus to equus?. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
Looking far into the future one may see man finished and fossilized, when woman is still at the stage of eohippus as. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
If the Eocene progenitor of the horse, the little four-toed eohippus, had been cut off, would not the world have been horseless to-day?. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
While there may be a little of eohippus exaltation in feminism, it is so little as to be negligible; our main purpose is still our age-old business of teaching by indirection. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
In the little eohippus was potentially the horse we know, as surely as the oak is potential in the acorn, or the bird potential in the egg, whatever element of mystery may enter into the problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Can we think of the first little horse of which we have any record, the eohippus of three or four millions of years ago, as evolving by accidental variations into the horse of our time, without presupposing an equine impulse to development?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
The evolution of the horse, according to the best and latest research, from the eohippus of Eocene times -- a small mammal no larger than the fox -- to the proud and fleet creature that we prize to-day, occupied four or five millions of years. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
They argue that the missing -paleohippus" of which I write could just as properly have originated in Europe, since there was a well-known European equivalent to the second-generation eohippus. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
He had found a little treasure, an articulated skeleton of eohippus, the tiny creature who had grown into the horse, and as he contemplated it he said, "In their day they must have been as common as rabbits. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
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