#mammoths — Public Fediverse posts

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon

This doesn’t look like much. 🌊
But 14,000 years ago, it was everything.
Water. Food. Travel. Survival.
Here’s what archaeologists just uncovered 👇
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/5dntzjwa
#IceAgeAlaska #ArchaeologyFinds #Mammoths #FirstAmericans #science #archaeology #Anthropology 🧭

#CentralAsia’s #fruit and #nut #forests: the real Garden of Eden?

Birthplaces of some of the world’s most beloved snacks

by Monica Evans
17 December 2020

"Millions of years ago, in the temperate montane forests of a little-known region in Central Asia, some of the world’s best-loved fruit and nut trees began to grow. #Apples, #apricots, #cherries, #plums, #grapes, #figs, #peaches, #pomegranates, #pears, #almonds, #pistachios and #walnuts all originated in the hills and valleys of the #TianShan mountain range, which stretches from #Uzbekistan in the west to #China and #Mongolia in the east.

"The area is volcanic and geologically tumultuous, but fertile – scientists have hypothesized that in a place prone to frequent eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, shorter-lived tree species that could disperse their seeds widely by making themselves palatable to large mammals had a better shot at survival than long-lived, slow-maturing trees.

"And that tasty survival strategy has served these species well. For residents of the region, the foods represent both security and social currency. 'From the taxi drivers to the ministers to the local people, almost everyone carries some #DriedFruit or #Nuts with them,' says Paola Agostini, a lead natural resources specialist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. 'It’s like this safety net, and it’s also a lovely gift: something to share with others that is always appreciated.'

"Central Asian marketplaces offer a cornucopia of colors, flavors, textures and varieties – many more than those most of us are accustomed to finding in our local supermarket’s produce aisle. 'I was always astonished that people in the region could so easily tell which country a particular dried apricot came from,' says Agostini. 'Their knowledge of these products is just so deep.'

"Procuring and sharing these energy-dense treats is an ancient practice in the area. Fruit and nuts were major commodities on the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that tracked through the heart of Central Asia, linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the first century BC through to the mid-1400s. Over centuries of trade and travel – and lots of munching by humans, camels and horses along the way – prized fruit and nut species spread their seeds wider and wider, and new hybrid varieties were created, many of which are now supermarket and home-orchard staples, cultivated enthusiastically in temperate regions across the globe.

"Narratives of plant domestication often tend to overstate the role of humans, but newer science suggests that 'evolution in parallel' with the plants we love is often a more accurate way of framing this process. 'It’s very unlikely that when somebody took an apple from #Kazakhstan and carried it across an entire continent, they were thinking that they could cross it with another variety and end up with something better,' says #RobertSpengler, a paleo-ethnobotanist at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany. 'They were more likely just carrying the seeds to plant somewhere else. And in doing so, they inadvertently set off a chain reaction of hybridization events.'

"According to Spengler’s research into the origins of apples, humans were not the first mammals to participate in that process of dispersal and co-evolution, either. In the late #Miocene, which spanned the period from 11.63 to 5.33 million years ago, large mammals such as #mammoths and #horses played critical roles in dispersing apple seeds and facilitating their evolutionary process into the large, sweet, flavor-rich fruits we enjoy today."

Learn more:
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/48941/central-asias-fruit-and-nut-forests-the-real-garden-of-eden/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ethnobotany #PlantHistory #SaveTheForests #SaveTheTrees #FruitTrees #NutTrees

#CentralAsia’s #fruit and #nut #forests: the real Garden of Eden?

Birthplaces of some of the world’s most beloved snacks

by Monica Evans
17 December 2020

"Millions of years ago, in the temperate montane forests of a little-known region in Central Asia, some of the world’s best-loved fruit and nut trees began to grow. #Apples, #apricots, #cherries, #plums, #grapes, #figs, #peaches, #pomegranates, #pears, #almonds, #pistachios and #walnuts all originated in the hills and valleys of the #TianShan mountain range, which stretches from #Uzbekistan in the west to #China and #Mongolia in the east.

"The area is volcanic and geologically tumultuous, but fertile – scientists have hypothesized that in a place prone to frequent eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, shorter-lived tree species that could disperse their seeds widely by making themselves palatable to large mammals had a better shot at survival than long-lived, slow-maturing trees.

"And that tasty survival strategy has served these species well. For residents of the region, the foods represent both security and social currency. 'From the taxi drivers to the ministers to the local people, almost everyone carries some #DriedFruit or #Nuts with them,' says Paola Agostini, a lead natural resources specialist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. 'It’s like this safety net, and it’s also a lovely gift: something to share with others that is always appreciated.'

"Central Asian marketplaces offer a cornucopia of colors, flavors, textures and varieties – many more than those most of us are accustomed to finding in our local supermarket’s produce aisle. 'I was always astonished that people in the region could so easily tell which country a particular dried apricot came from,' says Agostini. 'Their knowledge of these products is just so deep.'

"Procuring and sharing these energy-dense treats is an ancient practice in the area. Fruit and nuts were major commodities on the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that tracked through the heart of Central Asia, linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the first century BC through to the mid-1400s. Over centuries of trade and travel – and lots of munching by humans, camels and horses along the way – prized fruit and nut species spread their seeds wider and wider, and new hybrid varieties were created, many of which are now supermarket and home-orchard staples, cultivated enthusiastically in temperate regions across the globe.

"Narratives of plant domestication often tend to overstate the role of humans, but newer science suggests that 'evolution in parallel' with the plants we love is often a more accurate way of framing this process. 'It’s very unlikely that when somebody took an apple from #Kazakhstan and carried it across an entire continent, they were thinking that they could cross it with another variety and end up with something better,' says #RobertSpengler, a paleo-ethnobotanist at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany. 'They were more likely just carrying the seeds to plant somewhere else. And in doing so, they inadvertently set off a chain reaction of hybridization events.'

"According to Spengler’s research into the origins of apples, humans were not the first mammals to participate in that process of dispersal and co-evolution, either. In the late #Miocene, which spanned the period from 11.63 to 5.33 million years ago, large mammals such as #mammoths and #horses played critical roles in dispersing apple seeds and facilitating their evolutionary process into the large, sweet, flavor-rich fruits we enjoy today."

Learn more:
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/48941/central-asias-fruit-and-nut-forests-the-real-garden-of-eden/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ethnobotany #PlantHistory #SaveTheForests #SaveTheTrees #FruitTrees #NutTrees

#CentralAsia’s #fruit and #nut #forests: the real Garden of Eden?

Birthplaces of some of the world’s most beloved snacks

by Monica Evans
17 December 2020

"Millions of years ago, in the temperate montane forests of a little-known region in Central Asia, some of the world’s best-loved fruit and nut trees began to grow. #Apples, #apricots, #cherries, #plums, #grapes, #figs, #peaches, #pomegranates, #pears, #almonds, #pistachios and #walnuts all originated in the hills and valleys of the #TianShan mountain range, which stretches from #Uzbekistan in the west to #China and #Mongolia in the east.

"The area is volcanic and geologically tumultuous, but fertile – scientists have hypothesized that in a place prone to frequent eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, shorter-lived tree species that could disperse their seeds widely by making themselves palatable to large mammals had a better shot at survival than long-lived, slow-maturing trees.

"And that tasty survival strategy has served these species well. For residents of the region, the foods represent both security and social currency. 'From the taxi drivers to the ministers to the local people, almost everyone carries some #DriedFruit or #Nuts with them,' says Paola Agostini, a lead natural resources specialist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. 'It’s like this safety net, and it’s also a lovely gift: something to share with others that is always appreciated.'

"Central Asian marketplaces offer a cornucopia of colors, flavors, textures and varieties – many more than those most of us are accustomed to finding in our local supermarket’s produce aisle. 'I was always astonished that people in the region could so easily tell which country a particular dried apricot came from,' says Agostini. 'Their knowledge of these products is just so deep.'

"Procuring and sharing these energy-dense treats is an ancient practice in the area. Fruit and nuts were major commodities on the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that tracked through the heart of Central Asia, linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the first century BC through to the mid-1400s. Over centuries of trade and travel – and lots of munching by humans, camels and horses along the way – prized fruit and nut species spread their seeds wider and wider, and new hybrid varieties were created, many of which are now supermarket and home-orchard staples, cultivated enthusiastically in temperate regions across the globe.

"Narratives of plant domestication often tend to overstate the role of humans, but newer science suggests that 'evolution in parallel' with the plants we love is often a more accurate way of framing this process. 'It’s very unlikely that when somebody took an apple from #Kazakhstan and carried it across an entire continent, they were thinking that they could cross it with another variety and end up with something better,' says #RobertSpengler, a paleo-ethnobotanist at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany. 'They were more likely just carrying the seeds to plant somewhere else. And in doing so, they inadvertently set off a chain reaction of hybridization events.'

"According to Spengler’s research into the origins of apples, humans were not the first mammals to participate in that process of dispersal and co-evolution, either. In the late #Miocene, which spanned the period from 11.63 to 5.33 million years ago, large mammals such as #mammoths and #horses played critical roles in dispersing apple seeds and facilitating their evolutionary process into the large, sweet, flavor-rich fruits we enjoy today."

Learn more:
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/48941/central-asias-fruit-and-nut-forests-the-real-garden-of-eden/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ethnobotany #PlantHistory #SaveTheForests #SaveTheTrees #FruitTrees #NutTrees

#CentralAsia’s #fruit and #nut #forests: the real Garden of Eden?

Birthplaces of some of the world’s most beloved snacks

by Monica Evans
17 December 2020

"Millions of years ago, in the temperate montane forests of a little-known region in Central Asia, some of the world’s best-loved fruit and nut trees began to grow. #Apples, #apricots, #cherries, #plums, #grapes, #figs, #peaches, #pomegranates, #pears, #almonds, #pistachios and #walnuts all originated in the hills and valleys of the #TianShan mountain range, which stretches from #Uzbekistan in the west to #China and #Mongolia in the east.

"The area is volcanic and geologically tumultuous, but fertile – scientists have hypothesized that in a place prone to frequent eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, shorter-lived tree species that could disperse their seeds widely by making themselves palatable to large mammals had a better shot at survival than long-lived, slow-maturing trees.

"And that tasty survival strategy has served these species well. For residents of the region, the foods represent both security and social currency. 'From the taxi drivers to the ministers to the local people, almost everyone carries some #DriedFruit or #Nuts with them,' says Paola Agostini, a lead natural resources specialist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. 'It’s like this safety net, and it’s also a lovely gift: something to share with others that is always appreciated.'

"Central Asian marketplaces offer a cornucopia of colors, flavors, textures and varieties – many more than those most of us are accustomed to finding in our local supermarket’s produce aisle. 'I was always astonished that people in the region could so easily tell which country a particular dried apricot came from,' says Agostini. 'Their knowledge of these products is just so deep.'

"Procuring and sharing these energy-dense treats is an ancient practice in the area. Fruit and nuts were major commodities on the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that tracked through the heart of Central Asia, linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the first century BC through to the mid-1400s. Over centuries of trade and travel – and lots of munching by humans, camels and horses along the way – prized fruit and nut species spread their seeds wider and wider, and new hybrid varieties were created, many of which are now supermarket and home-orchard staples, cultivated enthusiastically in temperate regions across the globe.

"Narratives of plant domestication often tend to overstate the role of humans, but newer science suggests that 'evolution in parallel' with the plants we love is often a more accurate way of framing this process. 'It’s very unlikely that when somebody took an apple from #Kazakhstan and carried it across an entire continent, they were thinking that they could cross it with another variety and end up with something better,' says #RobertSpengler, a paleo-ethnobotanist at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany. 'They were more likely just carrying the seeds to plant somewhere else. And in doing so, they inadvertently set off a chain reaction of hybridization events.'

"According to Spengler’s research into the origins of apples, humans were not the first mammals to participate in that process of dispersal and co-evolution, either. In the late #Miocene, which spanned the period from 11.63 to 5.33 million years ago, large mammals such as #mammoths and #horses played critical roles in dispersing apple seeds and facilitating their evolutionary process into the large, sweet, flavor-rich fruits we enjoy today."

Learn more:
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/48941/central-asias-fruit-and-nut-forests-the-real-garden-of-eden/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ethnobotany #PlantHistory #SaveTheForests #SaveTheTrees #FruitTrees #NutTrees

#CentralAsia’s #fruit and #nut #forests: the real Garden of Eden?

Birthplaces of some of the world’s most beloved snacks

by Monica Evans
17 December 2020

"Millions of years ago, in the temperate montane forests of a little-known region in Central Asia, some of the world’s best-loved fruit and nut trees began to grow. #Apples, #apricots, #cherries, #plums, #grapes, #figs, #peaches, #pomegranates, #pears, #almonds, #pistachios and #walnuts all originated in the hills and valleys of the #TianShan mountain range, which stretches from #Uzbekistan in the west to #China and #Mongolia in the east.

"The area is volcanic and geologically tumultuous, but fertile – scientists have hypothesized that in a place prone to frequent eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, shorter-lived tree species that could disperse their seeds widely by making themselves palatable to large mammals had a better shot at survival than long-lived, slow-maturing trees.

"And that tasty survival strategy has served these species well. For residents of the region, the foods represent both security and social currency. 'From the taxi drivers to the ministers to the local people, almost everyone carries some #DriedFruit or #Nuts with them,' says Paola Agostini, a lead natural resources specialist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. 'It’s like this safety net, and it’s also a lovely gift: something to share with others that is always appreciated.'

"Central Asian marketplaces offer a cornucopia of colors, flavors, textures and varieties – many more than those most of us are accustomed to finding in our local supermarket’s produce aisle. 'I was always astonished that people in the region could so easily tell which country a particular dried apricot came from,' says Agostini. 'Their knowledge of these products is just so deep.'

"Procuring and sharing these energy-dense treats is an ancient practice in the area. Fruit and nuts were major commodities on the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that tracked through the heart of Central Asia, linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the first century BC through to the mid-1400s. Over centuries of trade and travel – and lots of munching by humans, camels and horses along the way – prized fruit and nut species spread their seeds wider and wider, and new hybrid varieties were created, many of which are now supermarket and home-orchard staples, cultivated enthusiastically in temperate regions across the globe.

"Narratives of plant domestication often tend to overstate the role of humans, but newer science suggests that 'evolution in parallel' with the plants we love is often a more accurate way of framing this process. 'It’s very unlikely that when somebody took an apple from #Kazakhstan and carried it across an entire continent, they were thinking that they could cross it with another variety and end up with something better,' says #RobertSpengler, a paleo-ethnobotanist at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany. 'They were more likely just carrying the seeds to plant somewhere else. And in doing so, they inadvertently set off a chain reaction of hybridization events.'

"According to Spengler’s research into the origins of apples, humans were not the first mammals to participate in that process of dispersal and co-evolution, either. In the late #Miocene, which spanned the period from 11.63 to 5.33 million years ago, large mammals such as #mammoths and #horses played critical roles in dispersing apple seeds and facilitating their evolutionary process into the large, sweet, flavor-rich fruits we enjoy today."

Learn more:
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/48941/central-asias-fruit-and-nut-forests-the-real-garden-of-eden/

#SolarPunkSunday #Ethnobotany #PlantHistory #SaveTheForests #SaveTheTrees #FruitTrees #NutTrees

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦣🗺️ Florida's springs hide Ice Age #fossils from #mammoths and #mastodons that lived alongside these waterways thousands of years ago.

Dr. Advait Jukar from the #Florida #Museum of Natural #History explores Devil's Den and other sinkholes where paleontologists dive to collect bones preserved in crystal-clear waters. Some springs still deliver over 246 million liters of fresh #water daily.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/devils-den-diving-into-floridas-ice-age-caves?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=devils-den

#animals #biology #caves #ecosystem #history #nature #northamerica #paleontology #science #scuba #diving #underwater #tksst #video

🦣🗺️ #Florida's springs hide Ice Age #fossils from #mammoths and #mastodons that lived alongside these waterways thousands of years ago.

Dr. Advait Jukar from the Florida #Museum of Natural #History explores Devil's Den and other sinkholes where paleontologists dive to collect bones preserved in crystal-clear waters. Some springs still deliver over 246 million liters of fresh #water daily.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/devils-den-diving-into-floridas-ice-age-caves?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=devils-den

#animals #biology #caves #ecosystem #history #nature #northamerica #paleontology #science #scuba #diving #underwater #tksst #video

What Really Killed the #Mammoths? New Evidence Points to Exploding #Comet 13,000 Years Ago

https://scitechdaily.com/what-really-killed-the-mammoths-new-evidence-points-to-exploding-comet-13000-years-ago/

Scientists have taken an important step closer to understanding the mythical #mammoths that roamed the Earth thousands of years ago.
#Paleontology #EvolutionaryBiology #Genetics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/pal11172501.html

#Genetics of #CentralAmerica #mammoths were weird
The species's boundaries in #NorthAmerica seem to have been fairly fluid.
The #DNA suggests that the #woollymammoth is an offshoot of the steppe #mammoth lineage, and was the first to migrate into North America. But the Columbian mammoth was a bit of an enigma; some genetic data suggested it was also a steppe offshoot, while other samples indicated it might be a woolly/steppe hybrid. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/genetically-central-american-mammoths-were-weird/

#archaeology #mammoths #AncientHumans

The remains of 5 mammoths have been found in Austria. Interestingly the remains of three included, dismembered but intact, tusks of the animals. It is thought that the tusks were being used to create ivory spear heads. the find is helping archaeologists to better understand how humans and Mammoths lived just before the peak of the last Ice Age. The mammoths were butchered using stone tools. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mammoths-butchered-ivory-tusks-unearthed-austria/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my painting of two fighting Columbian mammoths, they will become locked together and die together.

This book would make a great Christmas gift! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Mammoths #WoollyMammoth

#DNA from #mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving population
A small group of #woollymammoths became trapped on Wrangel Island around 10,000 years ago when rising sea levels separated the island from mainland #Siberia. Small, isolated populations of animals lead to #inbreeding and #genetic defects, and it has long been thought that the Wrangel Island #mammoths ultimately succumbed to this problem about 4,000 years ago.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/last-population-of-mammoths-survived-a-severe-population-bottleneck/

@KateShaw has released a new episode, full of interesting updates. Long distance migrations of Painted Lady Butterflies, the origin of Delcourt's giant gecko, mammoth DNA, the longest known worm, and many more. Also the "lava bear".

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/07/15/episode-389-updates-7-and-the-lava-bear/

a great episode.

#reptiles
#worms
#bears
#butterflies
#insects
#mammoths

Frozen mammoth skin retained its chromosome structure - Enlarge (credit: LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

One ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2036352 #ancientdna #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #biology

From 29 Jun: DNA from mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving population - Enlarge / An artist’s conception of one of the last mammoths of Wrangel Island.Beth Zaiken... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/last-population-of-mammoths-survived-a-severe-population-bottleneck/ #ancient-dna #biology #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #wrangel-island

Last surviving woolly #mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction https://phys.org/news/2024-06-surviving-woolly-mammoths-inbred-doomed.html

Temporal dynamics of woolly #mammoth #genome erosion prior to #extinction: Marianne Dehasque et al. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00577-4

"The last population of mammoths was isolated on #WrangelIsland off the coast of #Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland... they originated from at most 8 individuals but grew to 200–300 within 20 generations."

Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneck - Enlarge / An artist's conception of one of the last mammoths of Wrangel... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034436 #wrangelisland #ancientdna #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #biology

#Mammoths #WoollyMammoths

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Apparently, an adult wooly mammoth needed ~400 pounds of food *daily* for sustenance.

That would have required large contiguous grasslands and water sources for a herd to survive.

Just saying:

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/09/world/woolly-mammoth-elephant-stem-cells-scn/index.html

#science #experiments #mammoths #nature

Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step - Enlarge / Elephant stem cells turned out to be a hassle to generate. (c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008289 #de-extinction #elephants #stemcells #colossal #mammoths #science #biology

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 2: Large herbivores like #elephants #mammoths #mastodons share one big problem: human hunters. New evidence shows even #Neanderthals hunted and butchered elephants, so time for a big picture feature on this.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-long-history-of-elephants-suffering.html

#science #conservation #megafauna

An Alaskan mammoth and ancient humans frequented the same areas - Enlarge (credit: Aunt_Spray / GETTY IMAGES)

A single tusk is a... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1996991 #paleontology #isotopes #mammoths #science #biology #alaska

Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs

Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs

Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs

Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs

Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs

#Harappa, #Rakhigarhi, #Dholavira: 200 years of droughts may have erased these #Indus #Megacities, says study : Misc

Surprise! Colliding #Neutron #Stars create perfectly spherical 'kilonova' #Explosions : Space.com

#Woolly #Mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia: Pop Sci

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Even as a kid I knew this day would come. No really.
#Mammoths #ClonedMeat
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/29/mammoth-meatballs-grown-from-ancient-genetic-information.html

This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

#Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.

A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth - With $15 million in private funding, Colossal aims to bring thousands of woolly mammoths ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/science/colossal-woolly-mammoth-DNA.html #endangeredandextinctspecies #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #mammoths(animals) #your-feed-science #churchgeorgem #paleontology #elephants #cloning

People built bone circles at the edge of ice sheets, and we don’t know why - Enlarge (credit: Alexander Pryor)
As the last Ice Age tightened its hold on Europe, a group of pe... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1662135 #ancientpeopledidstuff #lastglacialmaximum #russianarchaeology #ancienteurope #archaeology #pleistocene #mammoths #science #iceage

Radar reveals ghostly footprints at White Sands - Enlarge
Ground-penetrating radar could help archaeologists spot otherwise invisible ancient foot... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1627533 #groundpenetratingradar #archaeology #pleistocene #footprints #whitesands #ichnology #megafauna #mammoths #science