Leptictidium
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Leptictidium is an extinct genus of small mammals that were likely bipedal. Comprising eight species, they resembled today's bilbies, bandicoots, and sengis, and occupied a similar niche. They are esp
Leptictidium auderiense
L. nasutum fossil
Leptictidium and Gastornis as shown in Walking With Beasts on exhibition in Horniman Museum, London
L. auderiense
Proboscis
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A proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking.
Leptictidium
…flexible joint with only one coccygeal vertebra. The anteorbital muscle fenestrae in their crania suggest they probably had a long and mobile snout (or Proboscis), similar to that of sengis. Leptictidium had wide diastemata in the antemolar row, its upper molar teeth were more transverse than those of the North…
A syrphid fly using its proboscis to reach the nectar of a flower
Convolvulus hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) feeding with extended proboscis
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) unfurling its proboscis to feed on Zinnia
Proboscis of a predatory marine snail Mitra mitra.