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#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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)

  2. Three New Species of #Fossil Kangaroos Discovered in Australia and New Guinea sci.news/paleontology/protemno

    Systematics and #palaeobiology of #kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) mapress.com/mt/article/view/me

    "The three #NewSpecies belong to the extinct #kangaroo genus #Protemnodon, which were common members of #Cenozoic communities across #Australia and #NewGuinea until their #extinction in the Late #Pleistocene."