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Tag Archives: Horse
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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T’was the night before Christmas
Head held down, the reindeer forced itself forwards. A strong, icy wind blasted against it’s thick hide. Straining to hear in the howling storm, there was no sign of the herd. Some moments earlier it had become separated from the group. Something had startled … Continue reading
Posted in Reindeer
Tagged Alces alces, Arctic hare, Arctic lemming, Capreolus capreolus, Caribou, Cave Lion, Cervus elaphus, Clement Moores, Cueva de las Monedas, Dama dama, Devon, Elk, Fallow Deer, Father Christmas, Giant Deer, Horse, Hyena, Irish Elk, Kents Cavern, Lascaux Caves, Last Glacial Maximum, leopard, Mammoth, Mammoth Steppe, Megaloceros giganteus, Montastruc, musk ox, Plymouth, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer, Roe Deer, Rudolf, Sabre tooth cat, Santa, Wolf, Woolly rhinoceros
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Ghosts of the desert
The sun sets over the plains of Vizcaíno Desert, Baja California península, Mexico; a vast desert watered by fog from the Pacific Ocean. A group of peninsular pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana peninsularis) stretch and lay about in the cool afternoon, … Continue reading
Posted in Pronghorn
Tagged American cheetahs, Antilocapra americana, Antilocapra americana peninsularis, Baja California peninsula, Bighorn sheep, Bison, camel, Canis dirus, Canis lepophagus, Chasmaporthetes ossifragus, Comondú archaeological complex, Cougar, Coyote, Dire Wolf, Grey wolf, Homotherium, Horse, Megantereon, Miracinonyx sp., Mule deer, Muskoxen, Odocoileus hemionus, Ovis canadensis, Peccary, Pronghorn Antelope, Protocyon, Short-faced Bear, Sierra de San Francisco, Smilodon, Tapir, Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, Vizcaino Desert
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The beasts within
Ask anyone to think of Pleistocene beasts and they will invariably conjure up images of herds of woolly mammoth, bison and horses sweeping majestically across the grassy plains, perhaps with a pack of dire wolves or lone short-faced bear stalking … Continue reading
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