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Eremotherium, ἔρημος “steppe or desert” and θηρίον, or “beast” was an extinct giant ground sloth from the family megatheriidae
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Characteristic of eremotherium was its robust physique with comparatively long limbs. Front and hind feets. Especially representative three fingersHowever, the skull is relatively gracile, teeth were uniform and high-crowned. Like today’s sloths, eremotherium was purely herbivorous and probably a mixed feeder.…
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Management of the populations of Mangrove Clams were critical during prehistory
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Mangrove clams, known as mangrove oysters or mud oysters. Are a group of bivalve mollusksThey inhabit intertidal zones. In tropical and subtropical regions of the oceans. There are several species of mangrove clams, found in different parts of the world, and,…
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Megalonyx jeffersoni or ‘giant claw jefferson’, is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family megalonychidae
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Aside from there deceivingly large cuddly, and playful looks. These critters were native and unique to north America during the pilocene and pleistoceneHowever, because of not many remains, we don’t know as much as some of the other late pleistocene vertabrates.…
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No wonder everyone wanted a woolly mammoth, mammuthus primigenius
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > From 40,000 years ago, as vindicated in numerous caves, the woolly mammoths were one of the most popular subjects of neolithic artists. Its tusks were 15 feet long, and some were as large as 7 tones. On top of this, they…
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Protected: Dating back to stories from the pleistocene across many cultures. Caribou, reindeer, or rangifer tarandus are mythical creatures
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Cave bears are ursus spelaeus. Its believed around 40-24,000 years ago. Similar to modern pests, they were displaced
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A prehistoric species of bear lived in Europe, Russia and the middle east during the Pleistocene It became extinct around 24,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum. When hominoids were growing from cave sites. Both the word cave and the…
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Megaloceros giganteus had up to 88lb antlers. They are known as irish elk, or in greek: μεγαλος megalos “great”; and, κερας keras “horn, or antler”
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The Irish elk (megaloceros giganteus), is also known as great horn antler, or giant deer. It is an extinct species of deer from the genus megaloceros. It is one of the largest deer that ever lived. Its range extended across Eurasia.…
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In greek, teratornis merriami, teratornis woodburnensis and maybe even a teratornis olsoni from Cuba are known as “wonder birds”
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Terratornis was a genus of huge north American birds of prey Taxonomy:1) Teratornis merriami: Because of the numbers foud at Rancho La Brae and the tar pits, is is by far the most researched species. Over a hundred specimens have been…
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In local Inuktitut language, the arctic ground squirrel is known from the thril it emits when being threatened “t’sik-t’sik”
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Found in the Arctic and Subarctic of North America and Asia. Arctic ground squirrel is mostly identified as Urocitellus parryii; or, in Inuktitut: ᓯᒃᓯᒃ, siksik People in Alaska, particularly around the Aleutians, refer to them as “par’kee” squirrels Most likely…
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Discovered around 1904, nothrotheriops shastensis is the Shasta ground sloth. Giving you the fancy name and article you see here today
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In northern California, paleontologist William Sinclair is believed to identified nothrotheriops shastensis fossils. He was on a expedition at Potter Creek CaveThese first identified fossils included a incomplete mandibular ramus, 14 molars, and a few other bits and pieces. They were…