Tag Archives: Oligocene

G(e)nomic Wisdom

Posted on December 4, 2020 by twilightbeasts

When I first started doing ancient DNA way back in two thousand and [polite cough], every base pair was a win. Nature papers were published with less sequence than you’d now expect a fresher to produce in their first lab … Continue reading →

Posted in American Lion, Cave Lion, Cheetah, DNA, European Jaguar, Leopard, Lynx, Sabre tooth Cat | Tagged ancient DNA, felidae, Homotherium, Miocene, Oligocene, Palaeogenomics, Pleistocene, Sabretooth cat, Scimitar Cat | 10 Comments

America’s original razorbacks

Posted on July 12, 2014 by twilightbeasts

Peccaries are a family of superficially pig-like artiodactyls, sometimes erroneously called “wild pigs” or “New World pigs”. Both pigs (Suidae) and peccaries (Tayassuidae) have relatively large heads with a cartilaginous disc at the tip of the rostrum and tough, leathery … Continue reading →

Posted in Peccary | Tagged Catagonus wagneri, Chacoan Peccary, Collared Peccary, convergent evolution, Flat-headed Peccary, Giant Peccary, Long-nosed Peccary, Miocene, Mylohyus nasutus, Oligocene, Panamanian Land Bridge, Pecari maximus, Pecari tajacu, Peccary, Platygonus compressus, Suidae, Tayassu pecari, Tayassuidae, White-lipped Peccary | 9 Comments

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