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  1. 🐴🦥🐘🐪 #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:

    marcusbrandel.substack.com

    #Pleistocene #Equus #Mammoth #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating

  2. 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)

  3. 🐂 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.

    redwoodcountyhistoricalsociety

    #pleistocene #redwoodfalls #bison

  4. 🦌🦥🐘🐪 #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.

    #citizenscience #pleistocene #fossilfriday #bison

  5. 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

  6. 🐴 #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 Specimen SMM P2025.8.6 — originally MNH 779 in the Minnesota Historical Society collection — comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota.

    Molar #11 of 12 in the statewide Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s KCCAMS Facility for radiocarbon dating this summer.

    Follow the full 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and its updates through the link in my bio.

    #LostBones #Pleistocene #Equus #Paleontology #CitizenScience

  7. Archaeologists put stone tools through modern engineering tests - Enlarge / It turns out the robot uprising will be equipped with (checks notes) sharp chert flakes. ... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1650689 #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #humanevolution #anthropology #olduvaigorge #archaeology #homoerectus #homohabilis #pleistocene #stonetools #hominins #science