In 1812, Cuvier made what Bernard Heuvelmans called his " Rash Dictum ": he remarked that it was unlikely that any large animal remained undiscovered.

Hardwicke's originally proposed taxonomic name was removed from the 1827 publication of his paper with his permission, and naming credit is now given to Cuvier.

Dingo skull illustrated by Frédéric Cuvier: As is typical in domestic dogs, the dingo's relative brain size is smaller than that of all non-domesticated subspecies of Gray wolf | wolves, being almost identical in size to that of dogs considered Canis lupus familiaris.

At present it is maintained by a considerable number-of distinguished naturalists, such as Blumenbach, Cuvier, Bory de St. Vincent, R. Brown, & c. " The notion or spontaneous generation ," says Bory, " is at first revolting to a rational mind, but it is, notwithstanding, demonstrable by the microscope.

It is because of this fact and his understanding of animal anatomy and physiology, that Cuvier strongly objected to any notion of evolution.

Cuvier is commemorated in the naming of several animals ; they include Cuvier's beaked whale ( which he first thought to be extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, Cuvier's toucan, Cuvier's Bichir, Galeocerdo cuvier ( tiger shark ), and Anolis cuvieri, a lizard from Puerto Rico.

Risso's dolphin is named after Antoine Risso, whose description formed the basis of the first public description of the animal, by Georges Cuvier, in 1812.

Other scientists such as Georges Cuvier put forward ideas of past ages, and Werner's ideas were incorporated into concepts of catastrophism by geologists such as Adam Sedgwick who inspired his university student Charles Darwin to exclaim " What a capital hand is Sedgewick for drawing large cheques upon the Bank of Time !".

* Physignathus cocincinus ( Cuvier, 1829 ) is found throughout South-East Asia, in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and south China.

Most notably, the museum contained a large variety of birds which Peale himself acquired, and it was the first to display North American mastodon bones ( which in Peale's time were referred to as mammoth bones ; these common names were amended by Georges Cuvier in 1800, and his proposed usage is that employed today ).

The New Caledonian Giant Gecko or Leach's Giant Gecko ( Rhacodactylus leachianus ), is a large species of gecko first described by Georges Cuvier in 1829.

The new Batman ( Terry McGinnis ) ends up captured by the leader of the splicers, Abel Cuvier aka Chimera, and is injected with vampire bat DNA, which transforms him into a Man-Bat.

Just to the east is Cuvier, and due south is Lilius.

Of the three sections, the most eroded and irregular is at the eastern end where the outer rim forms a low ridge that joins to Cuvier.

Further to the west is Cuvier, while Asclepi lies to the southeast.

Cuvier is a lunar crater on the southern part of the Moon's near side.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Cuvier.

C. macropterus is currently the only species of genus Centrarchus Cuvier, 1829, but Lacépède had originally assigned it to Labrus ( now confined to some marine wrasses ).

Just to the southeast is Cuvier.

Just to the southwest is Cuvier.

She is knocked out at the beginning of the scuffle with the French by one of their crossbows, but recovers and kills Cuvier toward the battle's end.

The fact that the plesiosaur's long neck had an unprecedented 35 vertebrae raised the suspicions of the eminent French anatomist Georges Cuvier when he reviewed Anning's drawings of the second skeleton, and he wrote to Conybeare suggesting the possibility that the find was a fake produced by combining fossil bones from different kinds of animals.

In this field Cuvier published a long list of memoirs, partly relating to the bones of extinct animals, and partly detailing the results of observations on the skeletons of living animals, specially examined with a view of throwing light upon the structure and affinities of the fossil forms.

Cuvier also believed that the stratigraphic record indicated that there had been several of these revolutions, which he viewed as recurring natural events, amid long intervals of stability during the history of life on earth.

This manual, though slighter than the subsequent works of Cuvier, Carus, and others, and not to be compared with such later expositions as that of Gegenbaur, was long esteemed for the accuracy of the author's own observations, and his just appreciation of the labors of his predecessors.

Bosc was brought back to France, where he served for a time as administrator of hospitals and prisons and obtained, in 1803, after a sojourn in Switzerland and Italy courtesy of Georges Cuvier, a position in the gardens and nurseries of Versailles.

He studied the mummified cats and ibises that Geoffroy had brought back from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, and showed that they were no different from their living counterparts ; Cuvier used this to support his claim that life forms did not evolve over time.

Agassiz was influenced by philosophical idealism and the scientific work of Georges Cuvier.

They were, however, separated by Cuvier in 1800 under the name of llama along with the guanaco.

In March 1800, Hermann alerted the French scientist George Cuvier to the existence of Collini's fossil, believing that it had been captured by the occupying armies of Napoleon and sent to the French collections in Paris ( and perhaps to Cuvier himself ) as war booty ; at the time special French political commissars systematically seized art treasures and objects of scientific interest.

In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, naming the animal, in which he refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird.

The genus now known as Pterodactylus was originally named Petro-Dactyle by Cuvier in 1809, though this was a typographical error, later corrected by him to Ptéro-Dactyle.

" Hardwicke's paper was not published until 1827, by which time Frédéric Cuvier had published his description and a figure.

Within the Articulata concept developed by Georges Cuvier, the velvet worms therefore formed an evolutionary link between the annelids and the arthropods: worm-like precursors first developed parapodia, which then developed further into stub feet as an intermediate link in the ultimate development of the arthropods ' appendages.

The genus Erithacus was created by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800, giving the bird its current binomial name of E. rubecula.

It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as part of his ideas of idealism, and became a prominent part of his version of Lamarckism leading to disagreements with Georges Cuvier.

A fossil tooth found in one of these was identified by Georges Cuvier as an extinct equine, which he dubbed Palaeotherium, the " ancient animal ".

Current research reveals two species of beaked whales are most affected by sonar: Cuvier ’ s beaked whales ( Z. cavirostris ) and Blainville ’ s ( M. densirostris ) beaked whales.

Though eventually forced to retreat, the badly outnumbered Confederate forces commanded by General Richard Taylor cost the Union troops, under General Cuvier Grover, significant losses.

By him, therefore, comparative anatomy was employed, not in subservience to the classification of living forms, as by Cuvier, but as a means of gaining insight into the principle animating and producing these forms, by virtue of which he perceived that, however different in form and faculty, they were all allied to himself.

He was a fervent advocate of the theory of the catastrophes ( as taught by Georges Cuvier ), thus opposing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Cuvier was by birth, education, and conviction a devout Lutheran, and remained protestant throughout his all life while regularly attending Church services.

Cuvier was critical of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of one form into another.

This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism that maintained that many of the geological features of the earth and the history of life could be explained by catastrophic events that had caused the extinction of many species of animals.