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An elk that wasn’t an elk | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. April 30, 2014. An elk that wasn’t an elk. Standing proud: A herd of the giant deer. During the closing years of the Pleistocene. (Painting by Tabitha Paterson). To see an Irish Elk (. In all its glory, visit the National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin. Here, skeletons of this magnificent beast are articulated, proudly towering higher than the visitors. What really stands out are the incredibly enormous antlers, spanning 3.6 metres across! Known as ‘the Irish Elk’,.
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April | 2014 | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. April 30, 2014. An elk that wasn’t an elk. Standing proud: A herd of the giant deer. During the closing years of the Pleistocene. (Painting by Tabitha Paterson). To see an Irish Elk (. In all its glory, visit the National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin. Here, skeletons of this magnificent beast are articulated, proudly towering higher than the visitors. What really stands out are the incredibly enormous antlers, spanning 3.6 metres across! Known as ‘the Irish Elk’,.
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May | 2014 | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. May 13, 2014. The one with the sabretooth. Smilodon opening wide. The cat could open its jaws to an incredible 120º (Painting by Tabitha Paterson). Is the genus of extinct sabretooth that everyone knows. Stocky, hugely muscled, with canines that protrude far below the jaw, it is the archetypal Pleistocene predator. It was a member of the machairodontinae. As it was from lions, tigers, and kin. The scimitar-cat split very early on from. May 8, 2014. Sloths shuffled arou...
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. April 30, 2014. An elk that wasn’t an elk. Standing proud: A herd of the giant deer. During the closing years of the Pleistocene. (Painting by Tabitha Paterson). To see an Irish Elk (. In all its glory, visit the National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin. Here, skeletons of this magnificent beast are articulated, proudly towering higher than the visitors. What really stands out are the incredibly enormous antlers, spanning 3.6 metres across! Known as ‘the Irish Elk’,.
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Clan of the cave hyena | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. May 2, 2014. Clan of the cave hyena. A family of hyenas resting in the grass somewhere in Europe. (Painting by Tabitha Paterson). Their deathly hypnotic stare sends shivers down the spine. The long, strong neck gives these amazing creatures additional cause to be feared. Hyenas are infamous for their ferocious ways of hunting in packs (known as cackles, or clans), scavenging carcases and loudly, excitedly, yelping as they rip their food to pieces. The striped hyena (.
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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. February 15, 2014. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. I’ve been a big fan of Errol Fuller’s thoughtful prose for about 13 years. When I was finishing my undergraduate degree I had my imagination fired by reading some papers on ancient DNA, which sent me into a flurry of research, trying to find out everything I could about the rare and the recently extinct. In the early 2000s this meant reading about Higuchi’s. Work on the Quagga. Laquo; Previous post.
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. January 27, 2014. I recently read “ Sabertooth. 8221; by Mauricio Anton. Obviously given my interests, this was one book I had to treat myself to. Anton and Turner’s “ Big cats and their fossil relatives. It used to be thought that the family of carnivores now known as the Nimravidae. Were part of the Felidae. This lasted well into the twentieth century until a detailed examination of skulls ( in particular the auditory bulla. Moved to the felid side. Ugh! I have been ...
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Clovis hunting an African elephant | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. March 21, 2014. Clovis hunting an African elephant. Clovis points, some showing signs of damage and retouching, by Billwhittaker. I was flicking through some of the papers the other day when I came across an article by George C. Frison. From American Antiquity titled “ Experimental Use of Clovis Weaponry and Tools on African Elephants. 8221; vol.54 p.766. It is like no paper I’ve ever seen before and a riveting read. He started with 7 Clovis points. One was acciden...
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. March 21, 2014. Clovis hunting an African elephant. Clovis points, some showing signs of damage and retouching, by Billwhittaker. I was flicking through some of the papers the other day when I came across an article by George C. Frison. From American Antiquity titled “ Experimental Use of Clovis Weaponry and Tools on African Elephants. 8221; vol.54 p.766. It is like no paper I’ve ever seen before and a riveting read. He started with 7 Clovis points. One was acciden...
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Paleopoems | deepfrieddna
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Ancient DNA, big cats, and blather. October 3, 2013. It seems today is national poetry day here in the UK. This got me thinking about poetry that intersects with or has as a theme paleontology and archaeology- the deep time sciences. Given my interest in extinct felids and other carnivores I immediately thought of The Innocent Assassins. By Loren C Eiseley. By the palaeontologist Loren Toohey, including photos of the famous specimen.) One of the first facts you come across while researching sabretoot...
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