Happy #FossilFriday from the #Alaska State Museum! In the Lower 48, most #mammoth fossils are Columbian #mammoths, but the colder climates of the Last Frontier favored its hairy cousin. These woolly mammoth #tusks were found in the #permafrost around #Fairbanks, but they're common enough across Alaska that they've been named its state #fossil!

I can't get the damn picture to flip! Oh well, highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs.

#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals

Archaeologists have solved a 150-year-old mystery of strange half-circles from a Paleolithic site in France. They found that the half-circles were made by mammoths trampling the ground. They also discovered that the site was a hunting camp for ancient humans.

#Archaeology #Mammoths #France

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/150-year-old-mystery-of-strange-half-circles-from-paleolithic-site-in-france-finally-solved?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

Giant #Mammoths stampeding through prehistoric #BlackForest

#SouthOfGermany #ai #Schwarzwald #artificialintelligence #aiart #aiartcommunity #aiartworks #generativeart #generatedart #AIGeneratedArt #digitalart #promptart

Time out for cheese #mammoths

Scientists Resurrect #Prehistoric #Molecules in Search of Modern #Medicine
Researchers taught living #microbes to interpret #genetic info from their ancient relatives, allowing them to synthesize compounds dubbed “#paleofurans” that last existed in #Pleistocene era, when #mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and #Neanderthals still roamed our planet.
#Antibiotics of tomorrow might just have their origins in the deep past thanks to a new class of compounds called "paleofurans."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvxmw/in-breakthrough-scientists-resurrect-prehistoric-molecules-in-search-of-modern-medicine

Hello Mastodonians,
here's a tooth, ca. 25cm, and a tusk, ca. 2m, of a mammoth. Herbivore, by the way.
They died out around the time of the last glacial retreat, as part of a mass extinction of megafauna in northern Eurasia and the Americas.🐘

The Burren centre, Kilfenora, Ireland

#ThrowbackThursday #Mammoths #IceAge
#TheBurren #Mastodaoine

Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists - Enlarge / Mammoth tusks collected at Wrangel Island, where some of the ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1936359 #paleontology #testosterone #hormones #mammoths #science #biology #fossils

Ars Technica: Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists https://arstechnica.com/?p=1936359 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #paleontology #testosterone #hormones #mammoths #Science #Biology #fossils

New tusk-analysis techniques reveal surging #testosterone in male woolly #mammoths.

#paleontology #paleoendocrinology

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tusk-analysis-techniques-reveal-surging-testosterone.html

#Harappa, #Rakhigarhi, #Dholavira: 200 years of droughts may have erased these #Indus #Megacities, says study : Misc

Surprise! Colliding #Neutron #Stars create perfectly spherical 'kilonova' #Explosions : Space.com

#Woolly #Mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia: Pop Sci

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

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RT @MostlyMammoths
ICYMI: Although already adapted to live in a cold environment around 700,000 yrs ago, woolly #mammoths appear to have continued to further adapt to their environment thru-out their existence. #AncientDNA 🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣
(art by @BZaiken)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/new-effort-ids-the-genes-that-made-the-mammoth/

Ars Technica: New effort IDs the genes that made the mammoth https://arstechnica.com/?p=1929988 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #ancientDNA #evolution #Genomics #mammoths #Science #Biology

#Mammoths appear in #Taipei form #Bing Image Creator!

#Mammoths appear in #Taipei form #Bing Image Creator!

The mystery surrounding the exact timing of the extinction of #mammoths has long captivated paleontologists. #DNA provided some answers, but a new study questions those results 🧬🐘

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/01/23/when-did-mammoths-go-extinct/

This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

#Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.

This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

#Creationsts, of course, turn it up to 11.

Love the #StandingStoneSunday idea. Bit of a cheat (haven’t walked to a SS shop nice the summer)but May I recommend #Carcasonne Hunters and Gatherings for people who really really want #menhirs #mammoths and #aurochs in a board game.

Some years ago, my beloved daughter made these very special Christmas ornaments for me, with woolly #mammoths and #dragons, as in the Dragonlance series I translated at that time. This year, having joined the mastodon community, it is double fun to hang them into the Christmas tree. This is to you, @nick and all the other #mastoadmin s - happy holidays or merry Christmas, whatever you enjoy these days. 🎄