Tag Archives: Elephant

Meet Long Tusk

Posted on April 29, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Some of you may have been lucky enough to see these incredible animals in the wild. Others may have felt a strong tug at your heart seeing one in a zoo. Most, if not all, of us have seen these … Continue reading →

Posted in Deinotherium, Mastodon, Woolly Mammoth, Zygolophodon | Tagged African Bush Elephant, African Elephant, African Forest Elephant, Asian Elephant, Columbian Mammoth, Deinotherium, Elephant, Elephantidae, Elephas maximus indicus, Elephas maximus maximus, Elephas maximus sumatranus, Gomphotheridiiae, Gompothere, Jan Freedman, Loxodonta africana, Loxodonta cyclotis, Mammutidae, Pliocene, Proboscidea, Stegodon, Steppe Mammoth, Zygolophodon | 4 Comments

Clovis hunting an African elephant

Posted on October 14, 2015 by twilightbeasts

One of the advantages of having entered academia after the internet revolution is that the majority of my library is virtual. My laptop PDF paper collection is currently at 6,554 items (and there are another 1,500 or so waiting to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clovis hunters | Tagged Africa, Clovis culture, Elephant, Extinction, human, Hunting, Mammoth, Mastodon, Overkill, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett | 6 Comments

An unexpected river horse

Posted on August 19, 2014 by twilightbeasts

In the cool breeze, beneath the shady cover of beech trees in the valley of Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, quarry workers revealed a world long forgotten. It was the summer of 1821, when shrubs and trees were being removed to excavate … Continue reading →

Posted in Hippopotamus | Tagged Acer monspessulanum, Deluge, Elephant, fruit of the cocklebur, Great Flood, Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hyena, Kirkdale Caves, Mammoth, Oodes gracilis, Oreston Caves, Rhinoceros, southern European maple, Trapa natans, water chestnut, William Buckland, Woolly rhinoceros, Yealmpton | 11 Comments

Of dwarfs and dragons

Posted on July 21, 2014 by twilightbeasts

Stegodons were just one branch of the rather diverse probiscidean family tree (the family that includes elephants, mastodons, gomphotheres and mammoths). The stegodons, like the mammoths and elephants, are generally thought to have arisen in Africa, and ended up in Asia, … Continue reading →

Posted in Stegodon | Tagged Elephant, Elephantidae, Elephas celebensis, Flores, Gomphothere, Homo floresiensis, Komodo dragon, Mammoth, Mastodon, Proboscidea, Stegodon, Stegodon aurorae, Stegodon florensis insularis, Stegodon sondaari, Stegodon trigoncephalus, Stegologphodon | 4 Comments

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