It’s a #lostbones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 This remarkable mammoth 🦷 has an even more remarkable story! Housed at the Interstate Park Ice Age Interpretive Center in Taylors Falls, WI - the tooth originated in #Minnesota.

It was discovered in 1987 by a heavy equipment operator excavating gravel from a Gray Cloud Island gravel deposit ~125 feet below the original surface!

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/interstate/naturecenter

#pleistocene #proboscidean #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #mammoth #mastodon

🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🦣🦬🦬🐟🍃
Its #MammothMonday Jim van Dijk has spent the last few months building the world's first reconstruction of a southern mammoth for the Museum Historyland Hellevoetsluis in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands.

Not only is the sculpture just an awesome site but Dick “Sir Mammoth” Mol was a consultant on the project.

https://www.ad.nl/voorne-aan-zee/wereldprimeur-voor-historyland-spectaculair-beest-toegevoegd-aan-collectie~a8b3f998/

#pleistocene #proboscidean #paleontology #iceage #fossil #femur #shareyourdiscovery #sculpture

Image credit ad.nl

#Testosterone in tusks: #Hormones in #mammoth #fossils excite #paleontologists
There’s a lot we can correlate #hormone levels with, because #proboscidean tusks record the life of that animal. Its rings record days and years of growth, for example, seasons in which it experienced famine or abundance, from when it was born to when it died. So if further information, such as additional hormones, can be detected, this opens up a new window into the lives of #extinct #species
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/testosterone-in-tusks-hormones-in-mammoth-fossils-excite-paleontologists/

Missing #Mammoth! 🦣🐪🦣🦥🦬🍂🦫 The New Ulm, MN mammoth tusk is missing! If you are wondering where it went – it’s back at the Science Museum of Minnesota where it is being fitted for a new display case!

The Brown County Historical Society is working with the museum’s exhibit services team to create a case that will keep the tusk safe and stable for generations to come.

browncountyhistorymn.org

#Pleistocene #columbianmammoth #shareyourdiscovery #sciencemuseumofmn #proboscidean #paleontology

Happy #MammothMonday – 🦖🦣🦥🐴🐪 Dinosaurs in Montana you say!? – How about this Columbian #mammoth found along the Powder River near Broadus Montana? 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🍂🦣 🐪🦬🐴

Several ribs, leg bones, a mostly intact skull, and both tusks are currently housed at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka Montana

Thank you https://cartercountymuseum.org!

#pleistocene #megafauna #iceage #proboscidean #shareyourdiscovery #pleistocene #geology #montana #columbianmammoth

🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🍂 Happy #MastodonMonday! Here is an interesting article on the discovery of Nova Scotia's first recorded mastodon. The location, a cut bank along the bed of Cape Breton’s winding Middle River, makes a beautiful scene - a glacial geologist’s dream. 😉

#pleistocene #mastodon #paleontology #proboscidean #iceage #fossil #geology
#shareyourdiscovery #glacial

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-discovery-of-nova-scotias-ancient-giants/

*images souced from original article

It's #Minnesota #MammothMonday. 🦣🦷 More Southern Minnesota proboscideans! - see my previous #MammothMonday posts. Here's a partial tooth found in 2019. It was found stuck in the muddy river bottom along a river cut bank. Surprisingly not fully tumbled apart. The rest of the animal could be close! Donated to the #sciencemuseumofmn. 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🍃

#proboscidean #iceage #tooth #columbianmammoth #shareyourdiscovery #pleistocene #paleontology #amateurfossilhunters #citizenscience #mammoth :tusky_scientist:

It's #Minnesota #MammothMonday. 🦣🦥🐴🐪🦬🍃 More Southern Minnesota mammoths! - see my previous #MammothMonday posts. Here's a fragment of a tusk found in 2019. It is the "outer bark" - not dentine or ivory but cementum. 🦣 Now, where is the rest of the animal!? #proboscidean #iceage #columbianmammoth, #shareyourdiscovery, #pleistocene, #paleontology, #amateurfossilhunters, #citizenscience

𝐏-𝐑-𝐎 𝐁-𝐎-𝐒 𝐂-𝐈-𝐃 𝐄-𝐀-𝐍

#Proboscideans #mastodon #Proboscidean

#nature #proboscidean
Just wanted to be sure that I know the diff between Mastodon and Wooly Mammoth.
https://www.diffen.com/difference/Mammoth_vs_Mastodon

New & improved with an #Introduction hashtag!

I am a leftist late(ish)-career #academic at #UNBSJ, a small east-coast #Canadian campus in Menahkwesk (Saint John NB). I teach courses in #c18 #literature, #bookhistory, #earlymodern #womenswriting, and #SFF. Current research: #copybooks. Not too active on Twitter since our strike but now it has become impossible because of a visceral gagging reflex whenever I envision Elon Musk. Let's see where this #proboscidean takes us. Or where we can take it.

Just moved over from @Mastodon.social. I am a leftist late-career #academic at #UNBSJ, a small east-coast #Canadian campus in Menahkwesk (Saint John NB). I teach courses in #eighteenthcentury #literature, #bookhistory, #earlymodern #womenswriting, and #SFF. I was never very active on Twitter but now it has become really difficult because of a visceral gagging reflex whenever I see pictures of Elon Musk. Looking forward to seeing where this #proboscidean takes us. Or where we can take it.