Tag Archives: Pleistocene

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

Giant Sloths & Sabertooth Cats

Posted on November 25, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin By Donald K Grayson If there is one thing I enjoy doing in my downtime, it’s reading about Pleistocene megafauna. As well as … Continue reading →

Posted in American Lion, Antilocapra americana peninsularis, Bison, Brown Bear, Camelops, Cave Lion, Cheetah, Clovis hunters, Columbian Mammoth, Extinction, Giant Beaver, Giant Ground Sloth, Glyptodon, Gompothere, Ground Sloth, Horse, Mastodon, Peccary, Pronghorn, Sabre tooth Cat, Short Faced Bear, Teratorns, Woolly Mammoth | Tagged book, Grayson, megafauna, Overkill, Pleistocene | 2 Comments

Squishy Bear Face

Posted on October 12, 2016 by twilightbeasts

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory … Continue reading →

Posted in Zygomaturus | Tagged Australia, Diprotodon, Marsupial, Marsupial Lion, megafauna, Pleistocene | 6 Comments

In Patagonia

Posted on June 20, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Patagonia. The name conjures up exotic windswept plains, adventure, and danger. A by-word for a region as foreign as Timbuktu. This remote section of Argentina and Chile holds many mysteries. In the south, Tierra Del Fuego, the legendary land of … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Ground Sloth, Horse, Macrauchenia, Sabre tooth Cat, Short Faced Bear | Tagged Arctotherium, Arctotherium tarijense, Charles Darwin, Extinction, guanaco, Hippidion, Humans, llama, megafauna, Monte Verde, Mylodon Cave, Mylodon darwinii, Panthera onca mesembrina, Pararctotherium, Patagonia, Pleistocene, radiocarbon, Ross Barnett, Smilodon populator | 5 Comments

A Camel for Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2015 by twilightbeasts

When I was a small child, it was traditional in rural Ireland to go round neighbouring churches and view their nativity cribs. The ones I was always more impressed by were the ones with huge plaster animals – the oxen, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigantocamelus | Tagged camel, Camelidae, hypsodont, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Rena Maguire | 2 Comments

The moo of the wild

Posted on November 11, 2015 by twilightbeasts

In a sense, Pleistocene megafauna are still with us even in post-industrial England. It may not seem like it but the humble heifer is probably the most successful species of megafauna on the planet, outnumbering all the elephants, rhinos, whales, … Continue reading →

Posted in Aurochs | Tagged ancient DNA, Aurochs, cave art, Chauvet Caves, cow, DNA, domestication, extinct, Extinction, Heck cattle, Lascaux Caves, Nazis, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett | 12 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

The Lynx effect

Posted on September 19, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Here at TwilightBeasts we like to focus on the Pleistocene. That magic time when everything was bigger, badder, and weirder than now. But it’s a simple fact that every species now extant must have had an ancestor during the Pleistocene. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lynx | Tagged American bobcat, ancient DNA, bobcat, Canadian lynx, Caracal, Caracal caracal, cats, caves, felidae, Iberia, Iberian lynx, Issoire lynx, lynx, Lynx canadensis, Lynx issiodorensis, Lynx lynx, Lynx pardinus, Lynx rufus, Northern lynx, Pleistocene, Portugal, refugia, Ross Barnett, Spain | 8 Comments

Yesterday’s Camel

Posted on June 11, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Camels are weird. I think we like them because their curmudgeonly reputation reminds us of someone we know (or ourselves!). Easy to recognise and totally unlike any other mammal, the “ship of the desert” is always included in Noah’s ark … Continue reading →

Posted in Camelops | Tagged alpaca, ancient DNA, art, Bering Straits, Beringia, camel, Camelidae, Camelops, Extinction, guanaco, llama, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett, Vicuña | 10 Comments

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