Tag Archives: Homo neanderthalensis

The lonely walk to extinction

Posted on September 8, 2017 by twilightbeasts

Our very species is an oxymoron. When Linnaeus added us to the taxonomic ranks of life, he dubbed humans Homo sapiens: literally meaning ‘wise man’. Sometimes I wonder how ‘wise’ we are. We can send people to live in space, … Continue reading →

Posted in Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros | Tagged Diceros biceros lonipes, DNA, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Island Dwarfism, Javan Rhinoceros, Mammuthus primigenius, Neanderthal, Rhinoceros sondaicus, Western Black Rhino, Woolly Mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros | 1 Comment

A very brief introduction to mammoths

Posted on July 18, 2017 by twilightbeasts

I was in Los Angeles when I first saw him. I stood in his shadow as he towered above me. I didn’t feel fear. Or panic. I felt awe despite being dwarfed. Light bounces off each bone, highlighting the curves, … Continue reading →

Posted in Columbian Mammoth, Deinotherium, Gompothere, Mastodon, Palaeoloxodon, Steppe Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth | Tagged African Bush Elephant, African Forest Elephant, Asian Elephant, Cave Lion, Columbian Mammoth, Cretan Dwarf Mammoth, Dolphin, Dorothea, Dorothea Bate, Elephas maximus indicus, Elephas maximus maximus, Eliphantidae, Fosters Rule, Giant Deer, Gompothere, Homo neander, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Homotherium, Ichthyosaur, La Brea Tar, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, Loxodonta africana, Loxodonta cyclotis, Mammoth, Mammoth Steppe, Mammuthus, Mammuthus africanavus, Mammuthus creticus, Mammuthus exilis, Mammuthus lamarmorai, Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus primigenius, Mammuthus rumanus, Mammuthus subplanifrons, Mastodon, Moeritherium, Neanderthal, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Primelephas, Proboscidea, Pygmy Mammoth, reindeer, Sabre tooth cat, Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth, Southern Mammoth, Steppe Mammoth, Straight Tusked elephants, The African Mammoth, Tori Herridge, TrowelBlazers, Woolly Mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros, Zygolophodon | 21 Comments

On the origins of our species

Posted on July 13, 2016 by twilightbeasts

As families go ours is pretty amazing. You have ancient cousins who effortlessly chomped through the toughest of roots and hardest of seeds. Another relative was the first of our family to make it all the way to China around … Continue reading →

Posted in Denisovan, Homo sapiens, Neanderthal | Tagged Anatomically Modern Humans, Australopithecus africanus, Back to Africa, Candelabra, Charles Darwin, Denisova, Ernst Haeckel, Eugène Dubois, Herto Skulls, Hominidae, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Jan Freedman, Java Man, Lucy van Dorp, Multiregional origin, Neanderthal, Omo fossils, Origin of Species, Out of Africa, Paranthropus boisei, Qafzeh hominins, Raymond Dart, Recent African Origin, Richard Leakey, Skhul hominins, The Decent of Man | 9 Comments

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? A true story of the real Palaeolithic diet!

Posted on June 14, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Food Warning: This blog contains (research by people who are) nuts (about ancient animals and peoples). How do you eat an elephant? The old motivational question is answered by ‘one bite at a time’. The same thing could perhaps be said … Continue reading →

Posted in Bison, Woolly Mammoth | Tagged American lion, Bison, Bjorn Kurten, Blue Babe, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Jarkov Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenus, Megatherium, Panthera leo atrox, Rena Maguire, Woolly Mammoth | 3 Comments

Forever young

Posted on May 30, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Being conscious of our own mortality has given our species an unhealthy fascination with immortality. Over the millennia we have conjured up stories of everlasting beings, some of which even allow us to follow them after we have died. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Key Deer | Tagged Bahia Honda Key, Bjorn Kurten, Dance of teh Tiger, Florida Keys, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Island Dwarfism, James Matthew Barry, Key Deer, Mouse goat, Neanderthal, Neoteny, Odocoileus virginianus, Odocoileus virginianus clavium, Peter Pan, Pudu, sStephen Jay Gould, Stegomastodon, Sugarloaf Key | 9 Comments

Neanderthals and us: we’re not so different

Posted on May 1, 2015 by twilightbeasts

I cried the first time I saw a Neanderthal. I was 8 years old, sat cross-legged on the wooden floorboards, watching The Land That Time Forgot. Everything around me ceased to exist as I was transported to a world of … Continue reading →

Posted in Neanderthal | Tagged apocrine glands, Earth's Children, eccrine glands, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Mayer, George Busk, Gibraltar, Glacial, Hermann Schaaffhausen, Hippopotamus, Homo ergaster, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Homo stupidus, Interglacial, Jean Auel, La Chapelle-aux-Saints, La Ferrassie, La Quina, Le Moustier, Marcellin Boule, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, mitochondrial DNA, Neander Valley, Neanderthal, Nuclear DNA, sebaceous glands, The Land That Time Forgot, Thomas Henry Huxley | 13 Comments

The bear necessities

Posted on July 2, 2014 by twilightbeasts

Humans and bears have a strange relationship. On the one hand we see them as lovable, smart, curious creatures (think Baloo from the Jungle Book). On the other, we have taken great pains to exterminate them wherever and whenever we … Continue reading →

Posted in Cave Bear | Tagged Cave bear, Cave Lion, Chauvet, DNA, Extinction, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Last Glacial Maximum, Panethera spelaea, Pleistocene, Ursus deningeri, Ursus ingressus, Ursus spelaeus | 4 Comments

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