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Ernst Haeckel's map of Lemuria, 19th c. Its probable site in the Indian Ocean, joining Madagascar, Africa, India, and the Malay Peninsula--the homelands of the lemur.

A Lemurian, as conceived by William Scott-Elliott, The Lost Lemuria (1904). The "average, common-place" Lemurian was a gigantic, ungainly being, between 12 and 15 feet tall, with long arms and legs permanently bent at elbow and knee, and huge hands and feet.

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