Tag Archives: Mammoth

Foolish dogs

Posted on November 11, 2021 by twilightbeasts

In 1870 another species was wiped off the face of the Earth. The warrah, or the Falkland Islands wolf, was only known to science in 1792. Less than 100 years later it was gone. The last known induvial died in … Continue reading →

Posted in Dusicyon avus | Tagged Dodo, Dusicyon australis, Dusicyon avus, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands wolf, Giant Ground Sloth, Mammoth, Mastodon, Warrah | 3 Comments

Coming of age: A review of Life through the Ages

Posted on April 2, 2018 by twilightbeasts

You can pick up the book here.Somewhere between being a teenager and having a child of my own, museums changed. The sense of solemn and elegant wonderment was replaced with lots of ‘accessible’ little cartoon smiley faces on posters and … Continue reading →

Posted in art | Tagged Charles Knight, Life through the ages, Mammoth, Museum, Smilodon, Woolly Mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros | 7 Comments

Island hopping hippos

Posted on January 19, 2018 by twilightbeasts

My mum passed away suddenly at the beginning of January. It was a huge shock. It still is a huge shock. It still doesn’t seem real that I will never see her again. Life is so fragile. I wish there … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Choeropsis liberiensis, Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus, Cretan Dwarf Mammoth, European Hippopotamus, Giant Maltese Dormouse, Hippo, Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotamus antiquus, Hippopotamus Creutzurgi, Hippopotamus laloumerna, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus melitensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippotamus Polka, Homo floresiensis, Mammoth, Pygmy Hippopotamus, Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth, Taweret | 10 Comments

Discovering the mammoth: A tale of giants, unicorns, ivory, and the birth of a new science

Posted on August 2, 2017 by twilightbeasts

Mammoth. With one word, we can all conjure up a mental picture of a woolly elephant, tusks curving out and in, possibly in a herd, in a habitat cold and snowy with biting wind and unforgiving snow. Isn’t it weird? … Continue reading →

Posted in Cave art, Columbian Mammoth, Deinotherium, Extinction, Mastodon, Palaeoloxodon, Scientific Art, Stegodon, Woolly Mammoth | Tagged Bering, Blumenbach, book, Georges Cuvier, Leibniz, Mammoth, mummies, Natural History Museum, Pleistocene, Woolly Mammoth | 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

The Devil on the mountain

Posted on June 27, 2017 by twilightbeasts

When hiking high in the Alps you may encounter the devil himself. Or so claims Swiss naturalist and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), when he writes, that one will be only ‘in the company of the devil,…’ if climbing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cave art, Chamois | Tagged Alpine-Chamois, Alps, Apenninic-Chamois, Bjorn Kurten, Cave of La Pasiega, Chamois, De Saussure, Devli, Gamsgebirg, Goat, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Ibex, Lion, Mammoth, Pyrenean-Chamois, reindeer, Riss glaciation, Rupicapra, Rupicapra (pyrenaica) ornata, Rupicapra pyrenaica, Rupicapra rupicapra, UNgulate | 1 Comment

No Bullwinkle

Posted on March 15, 2017 by twilightbeasts

On Twilight Beasts you will hopefully have seen some of the amazing mummified animals of the Pleistocene. Some of these mummies may even be like old familiar friends to you: the woolly mammoths Lyuba, Buttercup, Khroma, Dima, Yuka, and Mascha, … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Irish Elk, moose, Uncategorized | Tagged Alces alces, Beringia, Buttercup, Cervalces, Cervalces latifrons, Cervalces scotti, Clovis culture, Extinction, Irish Elk, Lyuba, Mammoth, Megaloceros giganteus, moose, mummies, Pleistocene | 2 Comments

Clovis hunting an African elephant

Posted on October 14, 2015 by twilightbeasts

One of the advantages of having entered academia after the internet revolution is that the majority of my library is virtual. My laptop PDF paper collection is currently at 6,554 items (and there are another 1,500 or so waiting to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clovis hunters | Tagged Africa, Clovis culture, Elephant, Extinction, human, Hunting, Mammoth, Mastodon, Overkill, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett | 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

Did humans wipe out the megafauna?

Posted on August 14, 2015 by twilightbeasts

The wonderful thing about writing for Twilight Beasts is the chance to bring back some truly incredible creatures. Here we are allowed to be taken back to a time when the largest land lizard ever walked the Earth: Megalania. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged Bison, Diprotodon, Giant Echidna, Glyptodon, Jan Freedman, Mammoth, mass extinction, Mastodon, Megalania, Megatherium, Overkill, Paul Martin, Smilodon, Woolly rhinoceros | 8 Comments

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