Tag Archives: Horse

In cold pursuit

Posted on May 28, 2021 by twilightbeasts

From feathered dinosaurs to woolly mammoths, countless animals that no longer live have come to pervade modern popular culture. Snuck into a world of dragons, witches, and ice zombies in Game of Thrones (or A Song of Ice & Fire), … Continue reading →

Posted in Dire Wolf | Tagged Dire Wolf, Dire Wolves, Horse, La Brea, La Brea Tar Pits, Sabre tooth cat | 3 Comments

The forgotten dogs of South America

Posted on March 19, 2021 by twilightbeasts

Abya Yala was the land of dogs for a long time.* This is where they evolved. On a solitary, large landmass drifting through a vast ocean. A landmass that Europeans would later call North America. These very familiar animals evolved … Continue reading →

Posted in Dog | Tagged Arctotherium angustidens, Berinigia, Borophanginae, camel, Caninae, Canis familiaris, Dog, Giant short faced bead, Glyptodont, Great American Biotic Interchange, Hesperocyoninae, Horse, Isthmus of Panama, jaguar, Panthera onca, puma, Puma concolor, Smilodon, Smilodon populator, Tapir, terror bi, Theriodictis platensis | 2 Comments

America’s Ass

Posted on April 17, 2020 by twilightbeasts

If you saw Avengers: Endgame, then you probably talked about it with your friends afterwards. The story. The action. The loss. And the ass. Yes. That ass. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) comments on Captain America’s old suit, saying it … Continue reading →

Posted in Horse | Tagged America's Ass, Ant Man, Armadillo, Ass, Avengers, Captain America, Donkey, Eohippus, Great American Biotic Interchange, Great American Interchange, Hippidion, Hippidion devillei, Horse, Iron Man, Onohippidium, Sloth | 6 Comments

Remarkable creatures

Posted on March 8, 2019 by twilightbeasts

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 | 27 Comments

Globe trotter

Posted on January 18, 2019 by twilightbeasts

Horses are one of Europe’s last big mammals. They shouldn’t really be here: they should have vanished a long time ago with most of the other large mammals from the Pleistocene. Europe once had herds of gigantic, hairy mammoths; solitary, … Continue reading →

Posted in Horse | Tagged Australopithicus afarensis, Eohippus, Hipparion, Homo erectus, Horse, Przewalski horse | 3 Comments

Tamed: ten species that changed our world

Posted on October 31, 2017 by twilightbeasts

The strong autumn sun shines powerfully on the hills in front of me. Yellows, oranges, reds, and browns light up in a dazzling array of hues, as if the trees themselves are on fire. Three horses munch grass in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Aurochs, Dog, Horse | Tagged Alice Roberts, Apple, Dog, Flour, giant sloth, Horse, Tamed, Wheat, Woolly Mammoth | 5 Comments

The Stuff Of Night-Mares

Posted on July 7, 2017 by twilightbeasts

Now that my thesis is nearly at the end, I can tell you all this secret. I have been so tiddled off at the archaeological paradigm that all ancient horses were wee tiny ponies. Victorian zoologists like Ridgeway and Ewart … Continue reading →

Posted in Horse | Tagged Akhal Teke, Celtic pony, Equus alaskae, Equus caballus, Equus caballus celticus, Equus enormis, Equus giganteus, Equus nevadanus, Equus pacificus, Equus taeniopus, Exmoor Pony, Horse, Lofoten Island Pony, Przewalski horse, Sccottish Eriskay, Tarpan | 15 Comments

Ice Age Mammals in Batman’s House

Posted on February 19, 2016 by twilightbeasts

During summer 2015 I was lucky enough to volunteer at the Nottingham Natural History Museum (NOTNH) at Wollaton Hall in the UK. Not only was Wollaton Hall the film location for Wayne Manor in the 2012 Batman film The Dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Creswell Crags | Tagged Batman, Canis sp, Cave hyena, Coelodonta antiquitatis, Creswell Crags, Crocuta crocuta spelaea, Equus ferus, Horse, Irish Elk, Jordan Bestwick, Megaloceros giganteus, Nottingham Natural History Museum, Phanerozoic, The Dark Knight Rises, Wollaton Hall, Woolly rhinoceros | 1 Comment

From the bones of giants

Posted on July 31, 2015 by twilightbeasts

One day in 1443, a mason chiselled the letters “A. E. I. O. U.” on a giant bone which hung from the gates of the bustling city of Vienna. The mason was not making sure they never forgot their vowels … Continue reading →

Posted in Cave art | Tagged Acheulean Industry, Ayla, Bison, cave art, Horse, Jan Freedman, Jean Auel, Jondalar, Knapping, löwenmensch, Mammoth, reindeer, Woolly Mammoth | 6 Comments

The strangest animals ever discovered

Posted on March 18, 2015 by twilightbeasts

I love reading through Charles Darwin’s diaries. Who wouldn’t? Written in his early 20s, Darwin writes detailed accounts of his days on board HMS Beagle. For me, these are accounts of fantastic, real, adventures: travelling where no Englishman had travelled … Continue reading →

Posted in Macrauchenia, Toxodon | Tagged Charles Darwin, Darwin's Frog, Edentata, Glossotherium sp, Glyptodont, HMS Beagle, Horse, Litopterna, Macrauchenia, Mylodon darwinii, Notoungulata, Pachydermata, Perissodactyla, Rhinoderma darwinii, Richard Owen, Robert Fitzroy, Robert McCormick, Rodentia, Stegomastodon, Toxodon | 12 Comments

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