#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/05/reform-continues-to-cast-doubt-on-climate-science-do-its-supporters-agree. "“I enjoyed the #heat this #summer,” said Jeanette Bowden, of #Bexley. “I don’t think people need telling to take care of themselves.” Her partner, James, added... 'Carbon dioxide was much higher in the past, it was 10 times higher than this during the ice ages. It’s not a human problem.' NO, James, it wasn't. The levels of #CO2 in the #Pleistocene were below 300 ppm (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12357-5). The current reading is 426.74 ppm (https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/).
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For #FossilFriday—dinosaurs headline the Minnesota State Fair, but an Ice Age predator is also on display!
These 26,900-year-old Homotherium serum fossils from Tyson Spring Cave include a skullcap, shoulder blade and foreleg. Found beginning in 2008, they provided the first record of this scimitar-toothed cat in Minnesota and the Great Lakes region.
See them through Sept. 7!
#LostBones #Homotherium #Pleistocene #Paleontology #CitizenScience Skull credit: Illinois State Museum (Facebook)
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La cenere sotto la torba del Pacifico, segno di un villaggio 100 secoli più antico delle piramidi di Giza
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=45110#archeologia #preistoria #pleistocene #ricerca #studio #antropologia #popoli #antichità #siti #scavi #isole #canada #columbiabritannica #costa #nordamerica #ipotesi #insediamenti #villaggi #reperti #misteri #civiltà
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El parque nacional Sierra de Capibara, en Brasil, contiene numerosos sitios arqueológicos de hasta 40000 años de antigüedad. Las pinturas de sexo son frecuentes, incluyendo orgías, zoofilia y aparente pederastia. 📷Rocmayer #pleistoceno #pleistocene
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🐂 Its a #MinnesotaMuseum #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪Today I'm spotlighting the Redwood County Museum. If you’re a naturalist — and a lover of #LostBones — this one’s for you.
The museum displays a large collection of mounted mammals and birds, along with a collection of skulls including a most wonderfully crusty bison skull. The museum also features historical and military history exhibits, a doctor’s office, and Native American artifacts.
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El Candiacervus fue un ciervo de finales del Pleistoceno medio al tardío aislado en la isla de Creta, midiendo de 40 a 165 cm de altura, según la especie, con patas más largas o más cortas, en cada extremo, respecto a las especies relacionadas del continente. Su cornamenta probablemente se usara más para exhibición que para el combate. #pleistoceno #pleistocene
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Pelorovis fue un bovino del Pleistoceno (2,5-0,8 MdA) con cuernos curvos con una envergadura de hasta 1,8 metros. 🏛️Museo Nacional de Nairobi 📷Bjørn Christian Tørrissen #pleistoceno #pleistocene
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Vorige Woche hat Michaela Ecker, Archäologin an der @kieluni, gemeinsam mit Kollegïnnen des @cnrs (Frankreich), der University of Botswana und der @uniheidelberg ihre Forschungen in Botswanas Hauptstadt Gaborone vorgestellt. Eingeladen hatten die Botschafterinnen Deutschlands und Frankreichs. Die Präsentation war der Abschluss einer mehr als dreiwöchigen Forschungskampagne in Botswana, in der es unter anderem um Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen vor rund 100.000 Jahren ging. Mehr dazu: https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/detailansicht/news/2026-08-14-ecker-botswana
#archäologie #archaeology #steinzeit #stoneage #pleistocene #Pleistozän #Botswana #Botsuana #archéologie
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🦌🦥🐘🐪 #FossilFriday — During and after the drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz into glacial River Warren—now the Minnesota River—river-level fluctuations, combined with the gneiss bedrock at Granite Falls, created a shifting landscape ideal for collecting sedimentary deposits and preserving bones. The Yellow Medicine County Historical Society holds a collection of bison remains from the area, some from a famous bison kill site: the Peterson Site.
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🦌🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday — Megaloceros giganteus, the Irish elk, which I was able to visit in June. Specimen USNM 7051 is masterfully mounted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
The mount features a massive steel armature to support its nearly 3.4–3.6 meter antler spread. Studies show Megaloceros dropped and regrew its antlers each year.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐸🦴 Spea labreae is a newly named spadefoot toad from La Brea Tar Pits, the first extinct Ice Age amphibian found there.
Paleoecologist Alberto Cruz spotted its unusual #bones while reviewing a collection untouched for nearly 30 years. The team also found a toad whose closest living relatives now live 2,400 km (1,500 mi) away, a clue to how #LosAngeles’s #climate changed at the end of the last #iceage.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-species-ice-age-toad-la.html
#laeabretarpits #paleontology #amphibians #climatechange #fossils #naturalhistory #nature #history #museum #toads #science #pleistocene
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Sharing a *real* mastodon on Mastodon (or selected replica parts thereof). These are shots from the Albert County Museum's new Hillsborough Mastodon display near where this 8-10 foot tall, 80,000 year old juvenile came to light back in 1936 #fossils #fossil #Mastodons #Pleistocene #paleontology #Palaeontology #museum #newbrunswick #Canada
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1123179/ 224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins #Europe #evolution #fossil #Hominin #Homo #HomoHeidelbergensis #HomoSapiens #human #ParietalBone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH1 #Science #skull #Spain #UK #UnitedKingdom
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Europe #Evolution #fossil #GB #Hominin #Homo #Homoheidelbergensis #Homosapiens #human #Parietalbone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH-1 #skull #Spain #UK #UnitedKingdom
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Europe #Evolution #fossil #GB #Hominin #Homo #Homoheidelbergensis #Homosapiens #human #Parietalbone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH-1 #skull #Spain #UK #UnitedKingdom
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🐯🐾🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday, a fantastic mount from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Fossils. The Smilodon on display — specimen v10928 — is a composite skeleton, greeting visitors with its wide saber toothed smile.
California’s state fossil, Smilodon fatalis, lived from roughly 400,000 to 11,000 years ago. Every bone in this composite came from the La Brea Tar Pits.
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#pleistocene #smilodonfatalis #paleontology #iceage #citizenscience
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Europe #evolution #Fossil #hominin #Homo #Homoheidelbergensis #Homosapiens #human #Parietalbone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH-1 #Skull #spain
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Europe #evolution #Fossil #hominin #Homo #Homoheidelbergensis #Homosapiens #human #Parietalbone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH-1 #Skull #spain
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Europe #evolution #Fossil #hominin #Homo #Homoheidelbergensis #Homosapiens #human #Parietalbone #Pleistocene #Ruidera #RVH-1 #Skull #spain
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New blog post!
A little Ice Age leg bone for our new exhibit.
https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/a-little-leg-bone-from-the-ice-age/
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#paleontology #palaeontology #fossil #pleistocene #museum #scicomm
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🐂 A surprisingly common bone in county museum collections across the Midwest — and one that’s often left unidentified — is the sternum. For the bison collections I've researched I usually see disarticulated individual segments, called sternebrae. They are the sixth most common post cranial element I’ve documented while out counting bones.
The section shown here was most likely discovered during the construction of Interstate 94 — a story covered in Lost Bones #5.
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Eremotherium for #FossilFriday.
This towering giant ground sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi, stands in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Remounted on a custom steel armature during the 2019 renovation of the Hall of Fossils–Deep Time, its external support structure is a piece of engineering artwork in its own right.The animal reportedly contains more than 80% genuine fossil bone and stands 13 feet tall.
#pleistocene #paleontology #iceage #groundsloth #citizenscience
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It's a follow-up #FossilFriday
The mysterious bone fragment I posted about last year has an ID! After examination by the Science Museum of Minnesota, as suspected, the specimen has been confirmed as a mastodon tooth cusp.A simple gravel‑bar discovery has turned into a scientific find — another reminder that Ice Age history is still hiding in plain sight across the Midwest.
If you would you have recognized it let me know.
#mastodon #mammut #pleistocene #paleontology #citizenscience #tooth
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RE: https://botany.social/@botanyone/116896042577548636
how often do you read an article like this and then ask yourself: "Where are the biggest gaps in the seed-dispersal networks of Pleistocene America, and how can we stuff ground sloths and mastodons into them?"
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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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.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html #science #ecology #evolution #genome #extinction #lions
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For #FossilFriday, meet "Junior." I was able to take these photos recently at the new Bison: Standing Strong Smithsonian exhibit in Washington, DC.
Junior is a massive Bison latifrons skull with horns over six feet wide. He was discovered along the Snake River near a reservoir in southeastern Idaho.
Marie L. Hopkins, Idaho's first female paleontologist, excavated Junior and in 1951
#womenwhodig #pleistocene #bison #paleontology #citizenscience
Hopkins, M. L. (1951) https://doi.org/10.2307/1375374
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Sur les îles méditerranéennes, le nanisme a transformé l'ossature des éléphants | France Culture
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🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
#Ursusarctos #Arctodussimus #Bears #GiantShortFacedBears #pleistocene #holocene #paleontology #iceage #fossil #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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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
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🌊 Late #Pleistocene pelagic #gastropods of southern #taiwan paleobiodiversity, first #fossil records, and regional affinity: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21046
@PeerJ
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Saltavano? Correvano? Mangiavano l’acacia? Le molte controversie sui canguri giganti del Pleistocene
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43831#animali #canguri #macropodidi #preistoria #pleistocene #australia #erbivori #ecologia #ambiente #conservazione #evoluzione #fossili #paleontologia #era glaciale #continenti #antichità #corridori #saltatori #prede #wallaby #acacia
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🐴 #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: http://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40#pleistocene #equus #femur #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
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L’impresa dell’antico albero che ha chiarito la portata dell’ultima inversione terrestre
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=41828
#alberi #preistoria #pleistocene #geomagnetismo #magnetismo #pianeta #spazio #magnetosfera #catastrofi #inversioni #escursioni #paludi #ritrovamenti #paleontologia #ipotesi #studi #scienza #accademia #ricerca #problemi #disastri #sole #estinzioni #eventi
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Evidenced Paleodrainages In Desert Regions Of Saudi Arabia - Satellite Images With Field-Based Study
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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4959129/v1 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #streams #poroussediments #pebbles #RadarImages #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast #remotesensing #drainage #paleodrainage #desert #evidence #satellite #imagery #fieldwork #fieldchecked #Quaternary #Pleistocene #climatechange #geology #landform #geomorphology #arid #streamnetwork #PALSAR #ASTER #thermaldifferentiation #spatialanalysis #multispectral #sediment #lithology #hydromorphic #geomorphmetry #waterresources #usecase -
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.
#Pleistocene #humerus #femur #BisonBison #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience
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A diferencia del Smilodon, los grandes colmillos superiores del Homotherium no habrían estado expuestos al cerrar la boca.📸ClausThomsen #plioceno #pleistoceno #pliocene #pleistocene #paleofauna
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Megalochelys, Truly a Giant Tortoise
https://tetzoo.com/blog/2024/1/31/megalochelys-truly-a-giant-tortoise @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"
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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
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Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418 <-- shared paper
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[By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
#australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene -
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!
https://pipestonecountymuseum.com
#pleistocene #columbianmammoth #tooth #femur #tusk #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
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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.
#pleistocene #proboscidean #sculpture #paleontology #iceage #fossil #femur #shareyourdiscovery #mammalmonday
Image credit ad.nl
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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!
https://anokacountyhistory.org/
#lostbones #pleistocene #bisonoccidentalis #bison #vertebra #femur #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
