Tag Archives: Pliocene

The beast of the woods

Posted on October 12, 2018 by twilightbeasts

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 | 1 Comment

“Nice Beaver!” (redux)

Posted on December 1, 2017 by twilightbeasts

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 | 1 Comment

The Lost Sheep

Posted on December 22, 2016 by twilightbeasts

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 | 1 Comment

Meet Long Tusk

Posted on April 29, 2016 by twilightbeasts

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 | 3 Comments

Small but mighty

Posted on April 27, 2016 by twilightbeasts

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 | 4 Comments

Doing the crawl?

Posted on April 25, 2016 by twilightbeasts

The life aquatic has lured many animal groups back into its liquid embrace. Marine iguanas, penguins, whales and dolphins, sea-cows and manatees, seals and sea-lions all returned to the sea from land (and air!) adapted forms. It makes a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Swimming Sloth, Thalassocnus | Tagged Charles Darwin, Evolution, Isthmus of Panama, Marine Sloth, Origin of Species, Pisco Formation, Pliocene, Ross Barnett, Thalassocnus | 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

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