Salutations. Je suis le baron Cuvier. Mon work est known pour considering la fondation of paléontologie des vertébrés, et I expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phyla and incorporating both fossils et living species into the classification. Je carefully studied elephant fossils found near Paris. J’ai discovered that their bones were indisputably distinct from those of living elephants in Africa et India. They were distinct even from fossil elephants in Siberia.