Showing posts with label mammoth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mammoth. Show all posts
Monday, 29 April 2024

WOOLLY MAMMOTHS: ANCIENT SNOW POUGHS

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Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

MAMMOTHS LAST MEAL

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One of the first scientific accounts of a well-preserved woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius,  frozen in Siberia described the meat as ent...
Friday, 12 January 2024

DARWIN: A TASTE FOR STUDIES

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Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...
Thursday, 28 December 2023

WOOLY MAMMOTHS: ANCIENT SNOW PLOUGHS

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Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

A TASTE FOR STUDIES

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Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...
Saturday, 13 August 2022

MAMMOTH CROSSES THE TUNDRA

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A mammoth crosses the icy cold tundra in search of food. Mammoths have a wonderful display of mammoth teeth, the diagnostic flat enamel plat...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

MAMMOTH OF WRANGEL ISLAND

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Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...
Friday, 20 August 2021

ORIGINS OF THE WOOLLY MAMMOTHS

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Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...
Saturday, 20 February 2021

CERECINOS DE CAMPOS: DEINOTHERIUM

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This partial specimen of Deinotherium giganteum hails from Middle-Upper Miocene, c. 15.97-5.33 Million Years outcrops near Cerecinos de Camp...
Saturday, 12 December 2020

ICE AGE PROBOSCIDEANS: WOOLLY MAMMOTHS

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This disarticulated fellow is Mammutus primigenius  a Woolly Mammoth from the Pleistocene of Siberia, Russia.  He's now housed in the Mu...
Monday, 27 April 2020

MAMMOTH TUSK: WRANGEL ISLAND

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Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

FOSSIL PREPARATION: MAMMOTH TEETH

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Mammoths of Wrangell Island Mammoths were were herbivore grazers native to Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. They lived out their ...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

MAMMUTUS PRIMIGENIUS

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Mammutus primigenius. Pleistocene. Siberia, Russia
Tuesday, 28 December 2010

WOOLY MAMMOTH

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Creating long extinct life through harvested genetic remains is closer than you think. After successful experiments at the Institute for Rep...
Friday, 5 February 2010

CROSSING THE BERING LAND BRIDGE

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The Columbian Mammoth, the official state fossil of Washington, crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America some one million years ago...
Monday, 21 September 2009

MEGAFAUNA: EXTINCT GIANTS

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Megafauna were part of a cohort of "giant" animals, species of large animals, reptiles, birds and mammals that went extinct during...