Tag Archives: Woolly Mammoth

A unicorn out of the twilight

Posted on October 29, 2014 by twilightbeasts

On 20th October 2014, a northern white rhino died in a zoo. Animals die in zoos all the time but what made this unfortunate death even sadder is that there are now only six individual northern white rhinos left on the … Continue reading →

The beasts within

Posted on July 24, 2014 by twilightbeasts

Ask anyone to think of Pleistocene beasts and they will invariably conjure up images of herds of woolly mammoth, bison and horses sweeping majestically across the grassy plains, perhaps with a pack of dire wolves or lone short-faced bear stalking … Continue reading →

Posted in Parasites | Tagged Archeococcidia nothrotheriopsae, Bison, co-extinction, coccidians, Dire Wolves, fluke worms, hepatazoons, Horse, lice, mites, nematodes, Parasite, roundworms, Shasta ground sloth, Short-faced Bear, Strongyloides shastensis, Trematodes, Woolly Mammoth | 2 Comments

Mammoths!

Posted on July 18, 2014 by twilightbeasts

The first animal that pops into anyone’s head when you say ‘Ice Age’ will be the woolly mammoth. This is the iconic animal of the Pleistocene. There were other large proboscideans lolloping across the landscape, including the mastodon and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Woolly Mammoth | Tagged 10000BC, Bering Straits, Charles Knight, Chauvet Caves, Font-de-Gaume, Gompothere, Grotte de CUssac, Hyena, Ice Age, Lyuba, Mammoth Steppe, Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus primigenius, Mammuthus subplanifrons, Mammuthus trogontherii, Mastodon, Neanderthal, Siberia, Southern Mammoth, Steppe Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros, Wrangle Island | 38 Comments

The lolloping shovel mouth

Posted on July 16, 2014 by twilightbeasts

My first introduction to gomphotheres was a research critique of a seminal Quaternary paper by Janzen in ‘Science’ journal. Something about these peculiar and ungainly looking distant cousins of today’s noble elephant fascinated me! Everyone has of course heard of woolly … Continue reading →

Posted in Gompothere | Tagged Auel, Beringa, Clovis culture, Cuvieronius, Gomphothere, Gomphotheridiiae, Great American Biotic Interchange, Isthmus of Panama, Land bridge, Mammut americanum, Mammuthus primigenius, Mastodon, Proboscidean Datum Event, Stegomastodon, Woolly Mammoth | 10 Comments

Impressions of the Pleistocene

Posted on May 28, 2014 by twilightbeasts

In 1915, prominent American palaeontologist, Henry Fairfield Osborn, published Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life, and Art. Drawing from his three-week-tour of archaeological sites across Paleolithic Europe, Osborn’s book integrated archaeology, geology and prehistory. Painstaking in its … Continue reading →

Posted in Scientific Art | Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Charles Knight, Cro-magnon, Font-de-Gaume, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mammoth, Neanderthal, Smilodon, Stephen Jay Gould, Woolly Mammoth | 7 Comments

The forgotten sabretooth

Posted on April 28, 2014 by twilightbeasts

If the Pleistocene megafauna held a popularity contest then I’m certain that some species would pop up more than others. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the giant ground sloth (Megatherium americanum) and sabretooth cat (Smilodon fatalis) are probably the gold, silver, … Continue reading →

Posted in Sabre tooth Cat | Tagged Cave Lion, Chauvet Caves, Creswell Crags, European Scimitar Cat, Ground sloth, Homotherium latidens, Kents Cavern, Lascaux Caves, Robin Hood Cave, Sabre tooth cat, Smilodon fatalis, William Boyd Dawkins, Woolly Mammoth | 21 Comments

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