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Tag Archives: Glyptodon
Nothing but the tooth
Teeth are probably one of the best parts of an animal. They are tough. They Hard. They can chomp down food. What’s more when the animal dies, they stand more of a chance of outlasting the brittle bones. They take … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeuphractus outesi
Tagged Armadillo, Buenos Aires, Glyptodon, Macroeuphractus outesi, Pampatheriidae, South America
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Remarkable creatures
Armadillos are pretty cool animals. They’re pretty weird too. They kind of look like odd small pigs, with crazy sharp claws. What’s more, they are covered in a pretty tough armour topped in even tougher scutes. The scutes alone are … Continue reading
Posted in Holmesina
Tagged Alfred Wegener, Armadillo, continental drift, Glyptodon, Gomphothere, Holmesina, Holmesina floridanus, Holmesina major, Holmesina occidentalis, Holmesina paulacoutoi, Holmesina rondoniensis, Holmesina septentrionalis, Horse, Macrauchenia, nine –banded armadillo, Pampatheriidae, pink fairy armadillo, Plate tectonics, Sabre tooth cat, Sabretooth cat, screaming hairy armadillo, Sloth, South America, Toxodon
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Turtle Power
In the canonical tale, Big Chuck D’s visit to the Galapagos was a “Eureka!” moment, where he instantly worked out his theory of evolution by natural selection after observing the different species of finches on the archipelago’s varying islands. Almost … Continue reading
Posted in Meiolania
Tagged Aldabra, Aldabrachelys, Australia, Chelonoidis, Extinction, Florentino Ameghino, Glyptodon, Lord Howe Island, Megalania, Meiolania, Mylodon Cave, New Caledonia, Ninjemys, Niolamia, Overkill, Patagonia, Richard Owen, Thomas Henry Huxley, Ultima Esperanza, Vanuatu
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How do you weigh a Dodo?
Extinction is something as real today as it has always been. What makes it even more real, and for our particularly emotional species, extremely sad is that these animals and plants are gone forever. We will never feel a dozen … Continue reading
Posted in Dodo
Tagged Columbiform, Convex hull, Dodo, Giant Cuban Owl, Glyptodon, Postosuchus, Postosuchus kirkpatricki, Raphus cucullatus, Trilobite, Woolly rhinoceros
6 Comments
Survivors
One of the wonderful reasons Twilight Beasts are so dear to us is because most are just downright weird. The peculiar llama with a trunk, dogs with teeth as strong as a hyena, and an armadillo that looked like an igloo were just … Continue reading
Did humans wipe out the megafauna?
The wonderful thing about writing for Twilight Beasts is the chance to bring back some truly incredible creatures. Here we are allowed to be taken back to a time when the largest land lizard ever walked the Earth: Megalania. We … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction
Tagged Bison, Diprotodon, Giant Echidna, Glyptodon, Jan Freedman, Mammoth, mass extinction, Mastodon, Megalania, Megatherium, Overkill, Paul Martin, Smilodon, Woolly rhinoceros
8 Comments
The long reign of terror
Something has survived. Bold capital letters spell out the above chilling sentence on the back cover to Michael Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park. No blurb. No description of the novel. Those three words say enough. That short, simple, yet powerful … Continue reading
Posted in Terror Bird
Tagged Cariamiformes, Cretaceous, Florentino Ameghino, Francisco P. Moreno, Glyptodon, Gompothere, Great American Interchange, Isthmus of Panama, Jurassic Park, K-Pg extinction, K-T extinction, Kelenken guillermoi, Mesembriornis milneedwardsi, Michael Crichton, Museo de la Plata, Paleociconia australis, Paleogene, Phorusrhacids, Phorusrhacos longissimus, Seriemas, Terror Bird, Titanis walleri, Toxodon
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Darwin’s 18 pence
South American Pleistocene beasts were super weird. They owe their peculiar evolution to events that happened deep within the very bowels of the planet, hundreds of millions of years ago. Almost all the land that we know today was squashed together … Continue reading
Posted in Toxodon
Tagged Charles Darwin, Glossotherium, Glyptodon, Gondwana, Great American Interchange, Macrauchenia, Mastodon, Mylodon, Notoungulata, Pangaea, Richard Owen, Rodenta, Smilodon, Toxodon
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A home on the range
Imagine an igloo. Now picture it with a crash helmet poking out the front, and a medieval spiked club sticking out the back. Elevate that image on four stubby legs, convert it into bone and flesh and you have a … Continue reading
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