#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.
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🐴🦥🐘🐪 #FossilFriday — Horse incisor & molar from Brown County
Brown County keeps delivering Ice Age finds — horse molars, mammoth tusk, and pelvis fragments from local gravels. Three New Ulm horse molars are already headed for radiocarbon dating, with more finds coming.
Lost Bones #7 is out this week and updates on Lost Bones #4 (the horse project) were previously posted:
https://marcusbrandel.substack.com
#Pleistocene #Equus #Mammoth #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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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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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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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
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/avec-sciences/sur-les-iles-mediterraneennes-le-nanisme-a-transforme-l-ossature-des-elephants-4281561
