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Tag Archives: Pliocene
The beast of the woods
I love a good walk in the woods. Breathing the clean fresh air into my lungs. Spotting a bird hop on a branch nearby. Listening to the almost silence as the wind gently rustles the leaves above. Feeling the crunch … Continue reading
Posted in Eucladoceros
Tagged Avatar, Eucladoceros, Gigantopithecus, Great Jerboa, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, James Cameron, Plesitocene, Pliocene
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“Nice Beaver!” (redux)
Beavers! Majestic dam makers of Canada. Living on a diet of maple syrup and poutine. Probably. I don’t know. Much bigger in the past, North America had Castoroides ohioensis, the giant beaver. As big as a bear. With its razor … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Beaver, Uncategorized
Tagged Castor, Castoroides ohioensis, Europe, Giant Beaver, Pleistocene, Pliocene, teeth, Trogontherium, UK
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The Lost Sheep
I don’t know about you, but I love the spirit of farmers during lambing season. Coming from a farming background, I know the farmers’ mingled emotions of dread and hope and joy as the wee lambs are born often in … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Sheep
Tagged cave art, Epivillefranchian period, Giant Sheep, Homo sapiens, Megalovis latifrons, Neolithic, Pliocene
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Meet Long Tusk
Some of you may have been lucky enough to see these incredible animals in the wild. Others may have felt a strong tug at your heart seeing one in a zoo. Most, if not all, of us have seen these … Continue reading
Posted in Deinotherium, Mastodon, Woolly Mammoth, Zygolophodon
Tagged African Bush Elephant, African Elephant, African Forest Elephant, Asian Elephant, Columbian Mammoth, Deinotherium, Elephant, Elephantidae, Elephas maximus indicus, Elephas maximus maximus, Elephas maximus sumatranus, Gomphotheridiiae, Gompothere, Jan Freedman, Loxodonta africana, Loxodonta cyclotis, Mammutidae, Pliocene, Proboscidea, Stegodon, Steppe Mammoth, Zygolophodon
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Small but mighty
Our planet’s climate fluctuations move to the slow, almost imperceptible dance steps of tilts in our axis and wobbles in our precession around the star we call the Sun. These movements which cause natural global-scale climate changes are known as … Continue reading
Posted in Horned Gopher
Tagged Ceratogaulus, Megaloceros, Milankovitch Cycles, Miocene, Mylagaulidae, Palaeocastor fossor, Pliocene, Rena Maguire, Sciuromorph, Zanclean Flood
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A Camel for Christmas
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
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