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Monthly Archives: January 2015
The gentle giant
I blame Belfast Zoo for my lemur addiction. It’s a rather super place with a remarkable success rate in breeding rare species. If you visit, you’ll find that part of the tour allows you to walk through a beautiful large … Continue reading
Joseph Leidy’s atrocious baby
Talk about the American lion today and most people will think you mean the cougar (Puma concolor), a beautiful, lithe predator sadly extinct from most of the Eastern United States, but still doing well in the west, and in … Continue reading
Posted in American Lion
Tagged American lion, Cave Lion, G. G. Simpson, jaguar, Joseph Leidy, Natural Trap Cave, Pleistocene, puma, Rancho la Brea, Sangamon, Smilodon fatalis
15 Comments
A Very English Panda
I was always rather glad that the delightful cartoon Kung Fu Panda gave suitable publicity to the Red Panda. Veteran actor Dustin Hoffman voiced the feisty little martial arts maestro of the film and I know from my own daughter … Continue reading
Posted in Red Panda
Tagged Ailuridae, Ailurus fulgens, Arundinaria gigantea, Dinoflagellates, English Red Panda, Foraminifera, Kung Fu Panda, Matuyama event, Musteloidea, Parailurus, Parailurus anglicus, Parailurus hungaricus, Pliocene, Poaceae, Pristinailurus bristoli, Puma pardoides, Red Crag, Red Panda, Richard Owen, William Boyd Dawkins
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Paddington’s dangerous cousin
North and South America were the last continents to be conquered by humans. We have been in Africa since we first evolved, Europe and Asia for over a million years, in Australia for about 60,000 years, but in the Americas … Continue reading
Posted in Short Faced Bear
Tagged Arctodus simus, Arctotherium, Beringia, Big Bear Cave, Bison, Brown Bear, Caribou, Cave Lion, Clovis culture, DNA, Florida Cave Bear, Horse, Mammoth, Ozark Skeleton, Pararctotherium, Polar Bear, Rangifer tarandus, Riverbluff Cave, Scimitar Cat, Short-faced Bear, Speckled Bear, Tremarctinae, Tremarctos floridanus, Tremarctos ornatus, Ursus maritimus
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The bizarre elongated llama
In the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, landscape manufacturer Slartibartfast likes to take elements of his favourite geological features and pop them together to make something extra special – allegedly how Scandinavia came about! On finding out about Macrauchenia, the … Continue reading
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