Tag Archives: Mammoth Steppe

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

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 first Mammoth of the Steppes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Four men stood beneath the wooden frame of this enormous proboscidean. On the front left leg, the man slowly raises his own left leg, bringing up with it the leg of the beast. Slowly, the skeletal leg lifted from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Steppe Mammoth | Tagged Elephantidae, Homotherium latidens, Mammoth, Mammoth Steppe, Pleistocene, Southern Mammoth, Steppe rhinoceros | 10 Comments

T’was the night before Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2014 by twilightbeasts

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 | 10 Comments

A unicorn out of the twilight

Posted on October 29, 2014 by twilightbeasts

On 20th October 2014, a northern white rhino died in a zoo. Animals die in zoos all the time but what made this unfortunate death even sadder is that there are now only six individual northern white rhinos left on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Elasmotherium | Tagged Alexander von Humboldt, Black Rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, Ceratotherium simum cottoni, Chauvet Cave, Coleodonta antiquitatis, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, Diceros bicornis, Diceros bicornis longipes, Elasmotherium, Elasmotherium sibiricum, Georges Cuvier, Indian Rhinoceros, Javan Rhinoceros, Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Mammoth Steppe, Narrow nosed rhinoceros, Natural History Museum at Moscow University, Northern white rhinoceros, Perissodactyla, Princess Dashkov, Rhinoceros sondaicus, Rhinoceros unicornis, Rhinocerotoidae, Rouffignac Cave, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, Steppe rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Western black rhinoceros, White Rhinoceros, Woolly Mammoth, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova | 1 Comment

Mammoths!

Posted on July 18, 2014 by twilightbeasts

The first animal that pops into anyone’s head when you say ‘Ice Age’ will be the woolly mammoth. This is the iconic animal of the Pleistocene. There were other large proboscideans lolloping across the landscape, including the mastodon and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Woolly Mammoth | Tagged 10000BC, Bering Straits, Charles Knight, Chauvet Caves, Font-de-Gaume, Gompothere, Grotte de CUssac, Hyena, Ice Age, Lyuba, Mammoth Steppe, Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus primigenius, Mammuthus subplanifrons, Mammuthus trogontherii, Mastodon, Neanderthal, Siberia, Southern Mammoth, Steppe Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros, Wrangle Island | 38 Comments

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