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Tag Archives: Ross Barnett
In Patagonia
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
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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
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Doing the crawl?
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
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Evolution, Isthmus of Panama, Marine Sloth, Origin of Species, Pisco Formation, Pliocene, Ross Barnett, Thalassocnus
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5 Comments
Lost, as the moa is lost!
Every biologist has a gateway species. The taxon you had never heard of before that just looked so weird and unusual that you had to learn more. So, you looked up a few books, searched some library holdings, maybe photocopied … Continue reading →
Posted in moa
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Tagged Aepyornis, ancient DNA, birds, cave art, DNA, eggs, Elephant Bird, Extinction, feathers, Homo sapiens, Maori, moa, mummies, New Zealand, Overkill, Pacific, Ratite, Richard Owen, Ross Barnett
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The moo of the wild
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
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Tagged ancient DNA, Aurochs, cave art, Chauvet Caves, cow, DNA, domestication, extinct, Extinction, Heck cattle, Lascaux Caves, Nazis, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett
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12 Comments
Clovis hunting an African elephant
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
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Tagged Africa, Clovis culture, Elephant, Extinction, human, Hunting, Mammoth, Mastodon, Overkill, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett
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6 Comments
The Lynx effect
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
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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
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8 Comments
A striped wonder
If you haven’t already, take a few minutes to watch this YouTube video. Think about what you are watching. The animal in the grainy film is extinct. When the last member of its species died out, a significant branch of … Continue reading →
Posted in Thylacine
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Tagged Australia, David Fleay, Dingo, Extinction, Marsupial, Marsupial Lion, New Guinea, Nullarbor Caves, Ross Barnett, Tasmanian Devil, Tasmanian tiger
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18 Comments
Yesterday’s Camel
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
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Tagged alpaca, ancient DNA, art, Bering Straits, Beringia, camel, Camelidae, Camelops, Extinction, guanaco, llama, Pleistocene, Ross Barnett, Vicuña
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