Tag Archives: Toxodon

Remarkable creatures

Posted on March 8, 2019 by twilightbeasts

Armadillos are pretty cool animals. They’re pretty weird too. They kind of look like odd small pigs, with crazy sharp claws. What’s more, they are covered in a pretty tough armour topped in even tougher scutes. The scutes alone are … Continue reading →

Posted in Holmesina | Tagged Alfred Wegener, Armadillo, continental drift, Glyptodon, Gomphothere, Holmesina, Holmesina floridanus, Holmesina major, Holmesina occidentalis, Holmesina paulacoutoi, Holmesina rondoniensis, Holmesina septentrionalis, Horse, Macrauchenia, nine –banded armadillo, Pampatheriidae, pink fairy armadillo, Plate tectonics, Sabre tooth cat, Sabretooth cat, screaming hairy armadillo, Sloth, South America, Toxodon | 27 Comments

Going underground

Posted on March 4, 2016 by twilightbeasts

South America is a place full of stories about mysterious beasts. Standing seven feet tall, with long red hair and big sharp claws, tales of the mapinguari, have been passed down in South American Indian folklore. An odd tapir/jaguar hybrid … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Ground Sloth | Tagged American Philosophical Society, Arctotherium, Armadillo, Cave bear, Glossotherium, Jan Freedman, Macrauchenia, mapinguari, Megalonyx jeffersonii, Megatherium, Megatherium americanum, Mylodon, Mylodon darwinii, Paca, Palaeovertebrate burrow, Scelidotherium, Smilodon, Thomas Jefferson, Toxodon | 25 Comments

The long reign of terror

Posted on April 16, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Something has survived. Bold capital letters spell out the above chilling sentence on the back cover to Michael Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park. No blurb. No description of the novel. Those three words say enough. That short, simple, yet powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in Terror Bird | Tagged Cariamiformes, Cretaceous, Florentino Ameghino, Francisco P. Moreno, Glyptodon, Gompothere, Great American Interchange, Isthmus of Panama, Jurassic Park, K-Pg extinction, K-T extinction, Kelenken guillermoi, Mesembriornis milneedwardsi, Michael Crichton, Museo de la Plata, Paleociconia australis, Paleogene, Phorusrhacids, Phorusrhacos longissimus, Seriemas, Terror Bird, Titanis walleri, Toxodon | 13 Comments

The strangest animals ever discovered

Posted on March 18, 2015 by twilightbeasts

I love reading through Charles Darwin’s diaries. Who wouldn’t? Written in his early 20s, Darwin writes detailed accounts of his days on board HMS Beagle. For me, these are accounts of fantastic, real, adventures: travelling where no Englishman had travelled … Continue reading →

Posted in Macrauchenia, Toxodon | Tagged Charles Darwin, Darwin's Frog, Edentata, Glossotherium sp, Glyptodont, HMS Beagle, Horse, Litopterna, Macrauchenia, Mylodon darwinii, Notoungulata, Pachydermata, Perissodactyla, Rhinoderma darwinii, Richard Owen, Robert Fitzroy, Robert McCormick, Rodentia, Stegomastodon, Toxodon | 12 Comments

Real vampires in South America

Posted on March 5, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Vampires have captivated our imagination for centuries. Despite limited (and fairly predictable) on-screen deaths by stake, sunlight, or a splash of holy water, the sci-fi/horror genre is still going strong (if you ignore the recent Twilight ‘saga’). Old school classics … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Vampire Bat | Tagged Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Common Vampire Bat, Desmodontinae, Desmodus archaeodaptes, Desmodus draculae, Desmodus rotundus, Desmodus stocki, Dieamus youngi, Dracula, Dyphilla ecaudata, Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox, Giant Vampire Bat, Hairy Legged Vampire Bat, Macrauchenia, Megatherium, Mylodon, Nothrotherium, The Lost Boys, Toxodon, Twilight, Vampire, White Winged Vampire Bat | 97 Comments

Just like the weather

Posted on February 18, 2015 by twilightbeasts

North America was a very different place during the Pleistocene. There were no skyscrapers, no highways, no concrete structures at all. Instead the landscape was wild, with grasses and white spruce forests dominating. This rich environment was filled with incredible creatures, including, … Continue reading →

Posted in American Lion, Short Faced Bear | Tagged American lion, Bison, cheetah, pronghorn, sabre-tooth cat, Short-faced Bear, Toxodon | 8 Comments

Darwin’s 18 pence

Posted on November 13, 2014 by twilightbeasts

South American Pleistocene beasts were super weird. They owe their peculiar evolution to events that happened deep within the very bowels of the planet, hundreds of millions of years ago. Almost all the land that we know today was squashed together … Continue reading →

Posted in Toxodon | Tagged Charles Darwin, Glossotherium, Glyptodon, Gondwana, Great American Interchange, Macrauchenia, Mastodon, Mylodon, Notoungulata, Pangaea, Richard Owen, Rodenta, Smilodon, Toxodon | 9 Comments

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