#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts

🐴🦥🐘🐪 #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

https://www.europesays.com/ie/642523/ Denisovans Were Surprisingly Tall, New Fossils from Taiwan Suggest #Asia #Bergmann’sRule #BodySize #Bone #Denisovan #diet #Éire #Femur #fossil #Hominin #Homo #HomoSapiens #hunting #IE #interbreeding #Ireland #Leg #Penghu2 #Penghu3 #PenghuChannel #Pilaster #Pleistocene #Science #taiwan #TaiwanStrait #Tibia

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

Episode two of Prehistoric Planet made me wonder about fruit and vegetables that went extinct before humans existed.

How many of them would we have found absolutely delicious? I wish I could try some of them.

#PrehistoricPlanet #FilmMastodon #History #Science #Mammoth #IceAge #Pleistocene #Food

My spouse and I watched the first episode of the third season of Prehistoric Planet tonight and loved it.

I wish mammoths still existed. They’re like very fuzzy elephants. (Or maybe elephants are like much less hairier mammoths?)

#PrehistoricPlanet #FilmMastodon #History #Science #Mammoth #IceAge #Pleistocene