Tag: megafauna
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PBS Eons: What Happened to the World’s Biggest Beaver?
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about Casteroides, which lived in North America up to about 10,000 years ago. It’s important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers, it was semiaquatic — it lived both on the land and in the water. The…
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Mazon Monday #41: Revisiting the exceptional tetrapod fauna of Mazon Creek, Illinois
This is Mazon Monday post #41. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This article is republished from the January 20201 ESCONI Newsletter. If you are a member, you will receive this newsletter January – June, July/August, and September – December during the year. Please consider joining ESCONI for $20 a year…
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PBS Eons: How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one connects archaeology, paleontology, and ancient art. Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?
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PBS Eons: When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the Irish Elk of more correctly, Megaloceros. Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth. The archaeological record is full of evidence that our ancestors lived alongside and interacted with these giant mammals for millennia. But…
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Ancient “Texas Serengeti” Had Elephant-Like Animals, Rhinos, Alligators and More
The University of Texas (UT News) has a press release about some recent work to catalog and identify a large collection of fossils collected near Beeville, TX during the Great Depression. Described as a “Texas Serengeti”, the collection includes specimens of elephant-like animals, rhinos, alligators, antelopes, camels, 12 types of horses, and several carnivores. In…
