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dinosaurs? Curious about how scientists learned to reconstruct fossil skeletons? The knowledge we take for granted today was slow in coming, and along the way, scientists and scholars had some weird ideas. 1443-Workmen digging the foundation of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna find a huge femur (probably from a mammoth). The bone is inscribed with its discovery date and the motto of Emperor Frederick III, and chained to one of the cathedral doors. 1519-Tlaxcalteca warriors from the Yucatán present Cortés's army with giant's bones that are actually mastodon remains. 1603-Two brothers find a mammoth tusk while fishing near Rotterdam. They rightly attribute the fossil to a proboscidean, but wrongly guess 1705-A giant fossil tooth is found along the banks of the Hudson River. It will initially be identified (by Cotton Mather) as that of a human giant who perished in Noah's flood, then correctly identified (by Georges Cuvier) as that of a mastodon. 1894-The intricately carved mammoth ivory figurine known as the Lady (or Venus) of Bras*empouy is discovered in France. At roughly 25,000 years old, it ranks among the earliest known depictions of a human face. This is not a comprehensive history of paleontology or biology, nor is it the result of systematic research. It's not the work of a professional scientist, educator or historian. It's just an eclectic collection of old illustrations and information. Although this site focuses more on the history of science than on evolution, it treats evolution as a scientific fact, not just a From Fossils, Evidence of Vanished Worlds by Yvette Ga*rard-Valy