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Tag Archives: Megatherium
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? A true story of the real Palaeolithic diet!
Food Warning: This blog contains (research by people who are) nuts (about ancient animals and peoples). How do you eat an elephant? The old motivational question is answered by ‘one bite at a time’. The same thing could perhaps be said … Continue reading
Going underground
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
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Did humans wipe out the megafauna?
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
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Overkill
“But how could they have killed them all with just pointy sticks?” This question, or a variation thereof, has been asked of me, seemingly whenever I bring up the concept of overkill as the likely cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. … Continue reading
Posted in Sea cow
Tagged Bering, Bering Island, Bering Straits, Commander Islands, Extinction, Ground sloth, Holocene, Hunting, Hydrodamalis gigas, Mammoth, Mastodon, Medny Island, Megatherium, Naivety, Overkill, Paul S Martin, Pleistocene, Sirenia, St Lawrence Island, St Paul Island, Steller, Steller's sea cow, Wrangel Island, Yupik
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Down the rabbit hole
“You’ve got no right to be growing here” said the Dormouse to Alice during her sojourn in Wonderland. “Don’t talk nonsense” Alice replied to the tiny, dozy rodent “You know you’re growing too”. To which the Dormouse retorted “Yes, but … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Maltese Dormice
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Andrew Leith Adams, Diprotodon, dormouse, Elephas mnaidriensis, FRAGSUS project, Gh’ar Dalam, Giant Maltese Dormouse, Glirideae, insular gigantism, Leithia cartei, Leithia melitensis, Mammuthus creticus, Megatherium, Messinian Salinity Crisis, Plantago lanceleota, Plantain, Richard Lydekker, Rumex, Short-faced Bear
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