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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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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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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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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…
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Found in Europe and Asia, the woolly rhino is paying homage to greek and Europeon tradition as ceolodonta antiquitatis or “hollow-tooth of antiquity”
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Many European cave paintings from the upper paleolithic, or late pleistocene depict woolly rhino. And are perhaps the more memorable and favorite megafauna of EuropeProbably due to the red orches, and plants; rock and charcoil; and, fauna combinations that were available.…
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Cave hyenas, also known as the ice age spotted hyena(s). Are crocuta crocuta spelaea and crocuta crocuta ultima
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Prior to the neolithic era. Two subspecies of the spotted hyena, or cave hyenas existed. Scientifically they are known as Crocuta crocuta spelaea and Crocuta crocuta ultima. They lived during the pleistocene in Europe and AsiaThey had limited interbreeding with the…
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Australian megafauna refers to the large animals that once inhabited Australia during the pleistocene epoch, which ended around 10,000 years ago
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In Australia, megafauna included the huge wombat-shaped Diprotodon and giant goanna Megalania. Unlike European megafauna. The woolly rhinoceroses, mammoths, cave lions and cave bears. North American: giant ground sloths, glyptotheriums, and sabre-toothed tigers. And, African megafauna including elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses and…