#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.
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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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#pleistocene #megalocerosgiganteus #paleontology #iceage #giantdeer #citizenscience Skull mount photos credit: NMNH/Loren Ybarrondo -
🦌🦥🐴🐘🐪 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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#pleistocene #megalocerosgiganteus #paleontology #iceage #giantdeer #citizenscience Skull mount photos credit: NMNH/Loren Ybarrondo -
💁🏻♀️ 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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💁🏻♀️ 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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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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🐯🐾🦥🐴🐘🐪 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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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/
As always, if you like these posts please leave a tip or become a subscriber. All proceeds support research and education at the Western Science Center.
#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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🐂 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 -
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 -
🐻 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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🐻 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/
Follow @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #pleistocene #neanderthal
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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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#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
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#Neanderthal #brains measure up to ours—literally
If you look at Neanderthal and #HomoSapiens #skulls, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal are lower and longer, ours tend to be rounder.
New results suggest there’s more variation in brain size among modern people than between Neanderthals and #Pleistocene Homo sapiens. And because brain size is actually a terrible way to predict cognitive capability, Neanderthals could have be more like us than previous studies claimed.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/neanderthal-brains-measure-up-to-ours-literally/ -
#Neanderthal #brains measure up to ours—literally
If you look at Neanderthal and #HomoSapiens #skulls, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal are lower and longer, ours tend to be rounder.
New results suggest there’s more variation in brain size among modern people than between Neanderthals and #Pleistocene Homo sapiens. And because brain size is actually a terrible way to predict cognitive capability, Neanderthals could have be more like us than previous studies claimed.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/neanderthal-brains-measure-up-to-ours-literally/ -
Study: Cave Lions were Distinct Species that Occasionally Bred with Ancestors of Today’s Lions
The extinct Eurasian cave lion (Panthera spelaea) and today’s African and Asian lions (Panthera leo) belong to separate…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #aDNA #Africanlion #Asianlion #AU #Australia #Cavelion #dna #Eurasia #Europe #Gene #Genome #lion #NorthAmerica #Panthera #Pantheraleo #Pantheraleospelaea #Pantheraspelaea #Pleistocene #protein #Science
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"If there happened to be nuts and seeds and their favorite plants, that was great. If there happened to be a dead mammoth over there or a dead horse or whatever else, they ate that. Or if there happened to be some poop of a horse over there, they ate that." https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/frozen-squirrel-poop-9.7230087
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"If there happened to be nuts and seeds and their favorite plants, that was great. If there happened to be a dead mammoth over there or a dead horse or whatever else, they ate that. Or if there happened to be some poop of a horse over there, they ate that." https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/frozen-squirrel-poop-9.7230087
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New blog post! Sometimes a fragment of a bone is all you need:
https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/more-mall-fossils/
As always, if you enjoy this content please consider leaving a tip or becoming a subscriber. All proceeds support research and education at the Western Science Center.
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🐴 #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
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🐘 #MuseumSpotlight #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 How often do you see a life‑sized mastodon full reconstruction?
I happened across this fantastic display recently in the Entering the Ice Age exhibition at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. If you have nature‑ or paleo‑curious kids—I highly recommend a visit.
They also have an excellent giant ground sloth and short‑faced bear skeletal replicas.
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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 This month I'm back out #CountingBones. At the Winnebago Area Museum a quiet storage room revealed bison and horse remains from two Blue Earth River sites
Shout out: this museum has been entirely volunteer run for half a century — the kind of stewardship that will help keep Ice Age stories alive.
Museum: https://www.winnebagoareamuseum.org
Learn about the Lost Bones project: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/about
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Anthropology.net: The Bag Before the Bowl: Pleistocene Origins of Mobile Container Technology. “The new database, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, documents 739 Pleistocene mobile containers drawn from 210 sites across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.”
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🐂 Happy #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦥🐴🐘🐪 These large upper bison molars — plus partial maxilla — are part of a 2024 donation to the Melrose Area Museum. The collection, contributed by a museum board member, also includes horn cores, mandibles, individual teeth, and other Ice Age materials.
If you’re into Midwest deep time stories, follow along and explore the full project in my bio.
#MelroseAreaHistoricalSociety #Pleistocene #Bovid #Bones #Palaeontology #Fossils #CitizenScience
