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#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.

  1. my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 13: Sparta the sleeping cave lion cub serves as the mascot for this feature about the #Pleistocene #megafauna that has gone missing one way or another.

    proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2 #science #ecology #evolution #genome #extinction #lions

  2. Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki

    Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilize…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #China #Climate #climatechange #Early-MiddlePleistocenetransition #Fossil #Gigantopithecus #Gigantopithecusblacki #Greatape #Guangxi #Hominid #paleoclimate #Pleistocene #Primate #Teeth #YanliCave1
    newsbeep.com/us/708719/

  3. 🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 In the summer of 2012, students from the Geology Department at Gustavus Adolphus College collected over 800 bones on the Des Moines River near Jackson, Minnesota.

    This crunchy but beautiful left horse femur was part of the project and is now housed at the Jackson County Historical Society in Lakefield.

    Jackson County: jchsmn.org
    Lost Bones: medium.com/@dbrake40

    #pleistocene #equus #femur #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  4. It's #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃
    A remarkable find: Two neighbors contributed a total of 100 bison bones, discovered in separate years from the same lowland peat deposit spanning a highway in Walcott County, Minnesota. Notably, one of the collections shows possible signs of butchery.

    Both collections are now at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault, Minnesota.

    rchistory.org

    #Pleistocene #humerus #femur #BisonBison #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience

  5. A diferencia del Smilodon, los grandes colmillos superiores del Homotherium no habrían estado expuestos al cerrar la boca.📸ClausThomsen #plioceno #pleistoceno #pliocene #pleistocene #paleofauna

  6. Megalochelys, Truly a Giant Tortoise
    tetzoo.com/blog/2024/1/31/mega @TetZoo

    "while the living species are very nice and all, they do sort of pale in comparison to their extinct giant relative: #Megalochelys, a geologically long-lived Eurasian taxon that was alive during the #Miocene, #Pliocene and #Pleistocene and lived from central Asia in the west to Indonesia in the east"

  7. The right 3rd metatarsal (middle foot bone) from a mastodon, from the #Pliocene or #Pleistocene near Beaumont, CA. It most likely comes from either Mammut pacificus or M. cosoensis. @westernsciencecenter collection. #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil #museum #mastodon

  8. It’s a #lostbones #MammothMonday 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟 This mammoth specimen is not from #Minnesota but you can see it here.

    Found in Miles City, Montana, this partial Columbian mammoth femur is housed at the Pipestone County Museum. It is currently not on display but a partial tusk and jaw from the same Montana doner are. More to come on those!

    pipestonecountymuseum.com

    #pleistocene #columbianmammoth #tooth #femur #tusk #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience

  9. 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🐟🍃
    Its #MammothMonday Jim van Dijk has spent the last few months building the world's first reconstruction of a southern mammoth for the Museum Historyland Hellevoetsluis in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands.

    Not only is the sculpture just an awesome site but Dick “Sir Mammoth” Mol was a consultant on the project.

    ad.nl/voorne-aan-zee/wereldpri

    #pleistocene #proboscidean #sculpture #paleontology #iceage #fossil #femur #shareyourdiscovery #mammalmonday

    Image credit ad.nl

  10. It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🐪🦥🦫🐴🐟🍃 This beautiful Bison occidentalis skull is housed at the Anoka County Historical Society. Found in a black dirt pit near Andover it was donated in 1977 along with related vertebrae, long bones, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, and carpals.

    The skull’s horn span across the cores is 75cm, nearly 30 inches!

    anokacountyhistory.org/

    #lostbones #pleistocene #bisonoccidentalis #bison #vertebra #femur #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience