Tag Archives: Macrauchenia

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

Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth

Posted on February 11, 2019 by twilightbeasts

Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth I recently bought this book (with my own money, this is an impartial review: I can’t be bought, man!). “Smilodon” is somewhat of a companion volume to another recent-ish release, namely “The Other Saber-tooths: Scimitar-tooth Cats … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arctodus simus, Arctotherium tarijense, Giant Ground Sloth, Hippidion, Homotherium, Homotherium latidens, Homotherium serum, llama, Macrauchenia, Pararctotherium, Patagonia, Pleistocene, Smilodon, Smilodon fatalis, Smilodon gracilis, Smilodon populator | 1 Comment

Going underground

Posted on March 4, 2016 by twilightbeasts

South America is a place full of stories about mysterious beasts. Standing seven feet tall, with long red hair and big sharp claws, tales of the mapinguari, have been passed down in South American Indian folklore. An odd tapir/jaguar hybrid … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Ground Sloth | Tagged American Philosophical Society, Arctotherium, Armadillo, Cave bear, Glossotherium, Jan Freedman, Macrauchenia, mapinguari, Megalonyx jeffersonii, Megatherium, Megatherium americanum, Mylodon, Mylodon darwinii, Paca, Palaeovertebrate burrow, Scelidotherium, Smilodon, Thomas Jefferson, Toxodon | 25 Comments

Survivors

Posted on November 18, 2015 by twilightbeasts

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 →

Posted in Saiga antelope | Tagged Bering Strait, Bone crushing dog, Cave bear, Cave Lion, Giant Deer, Glyptodon, Glyptodont, Hippopotamus, Irish Elk, Jan Freedman, Macrauchenia, Mammoth Steppe, Sabre tooth cat, Saiga antelope, Saiga tatarica, 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

Real vampires in South America

Posted on March 5, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Vampires have captivated our imagination for centuries. Despite limited (and fairly predictable) on-screen deaths by stake, sunlight, or a splash of holy water, the sci-fi/horror genre is still going strong (if you ignore the recent Twilight ‘saga’). Old school classics … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Vampire Bat | Tagged Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Common Vampire Bat, Desmodontinae, Desmodus archaeodaptes, Desmodus draculae, Desmodus rotundus, Desmodus stocki, Dieamus youngi, Dracula, Dyphilla ecaudata, Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox, Giant Vampire Bat, Hairy Legged Vampire Bat, Macrauchenia, Megatherium, Mylodon, Nothrotherium, The Lost Boys, Toxodon, Twilight, Vampire, White Winged Vampire Bat | 97 Comments

The bizarre elongated llama

Posted on January 2, 2015 by twilightbeasts

In the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, landscape manufacturer Slartibartfast likes to take elements of his favourite geological features and pop them together to make something extra special – allegedly how Scandinavia came about! On finding out about Macrauchenia, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Macrauchenia | Tagged Bahia, Camelidae, Charles Darwin, Great American Interchange, Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, HMS Beagle, Isthmus of Panama, Macrauchenia, Macrauchenia patachonica, Mastodon, Monte Verde, Phorusrhacidae, Richard Owen, Ruminantia, Terror-Birds | 12 Comments

Darwin’s 18 pence

Posted on November 13, 2014 by twilightbeasts

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 | 9 Comments

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