#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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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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Payre fossil teeth reveal regional diversity among Europe’s earliest Neanderthals
A team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana studied fossil teeth from the Payre site in southeastern France. The material comes from nine teeth found in layers linked to the Middle Pleistocene, around 250,000 years ago...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/payre-fossil-teeth-europes-earliest-neanderthals/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #pleistocene #neanderthal
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#FossilFriday The final tooth—12 of 12—is SMM P2024.5.1, a lower molar found at Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (Brooklyn Park, MN) in 2023.
Twelve 3D printed reproductions of the molars are also underway and are now receiving their final paint touches. Once complete, the original specimens will be carefully packed and shipped to UC Irvine’s W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility (KCCAMS) for radiocarbon dating.
#LostBones #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience
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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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Zombies of the Pleistocene:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01840-x
#zombies #pleistocene
