You can find out where the majority of the Drumpf families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records. Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination. from the New York Passenger Lists.
Sea Turtle History. The oldest fossils of turtles were found in Germany and date back 215 million years, during the Triassic period. 1 They are among the oldest fossils of four-legged animals and one of the Earthâs most ancient creatures. These ancestral turtles had completely formed shells and lived on land, in marshes.
The word hippopotamus is derived from the ancient Greek á¼±ÏÏÎ¿ÏÏÏÎ±Î¼Î¿Ï, hippopotamos, from á¼µÏÏÎ¿Ï, hippos, horse, and ÏÎ¿ÏÎ±Î¼ÏÏ, potamos, river, meaning horse of the river. In English, the plural is hippopotamuses, but hippopotami is also used; hippos can be used as a short plural.he common ancestor of whales and hippos split from other even-toed ungulates around 60 million years ago. The earliest known hippopotamus fossils, belonging to the genus Kenyapotamus in Africa, date to around 16 million years ago.