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Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

#Jobarchéo The Natural History #Museum of London is recruiting a Researcher in #Pleistocene #Human #Evolution.

🚩Closing date: 17/04/2026

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Digital artwork of a woolly mammoth with a luxurious coat and soulful lashes. She is leaping in victory while some kind of (unseen) volcanic surface lights her glossy fur from underneath. The image has no background. It's just the mammoth because that's all you really need to see here, really.

Digital artwork of a woolly mammoth with a luxurious coat and soulful lashes. She is leaping in victory while some kind of (unseen) volcanic surface lights her glossy fur from underneath. The image has no background. It's just the mammoth because that's all you really need to see here, really.

I'm well aware that elephants cannot jump, but you've never seen a living woolly mammoth in the first place so don't even get started on scientific accuracy here

Character from my game about animals who...jump! On a volcano!

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pleistocene #indie

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The Late Pleistocene Megafauna: Huge Animals that Used to Roam the Earth Not so long ago, huge mammals weighing more than 1,000 kg existed practically all over the world. We call these giants the Pleistocene megafauna because they lived in a time period called the Pleistocene and were almost completely extinct around 11,700 years ago. These mammals lived on Earth for millions of years and were very important to almost all land-based ecosystems. However, natural climate change and humans decreased their ability to survive. Today, we find fossils of Pleistocene megafauna all over the world, including bones, hair, droppings, and even footprints. Scientists dig for these fossils to learn more about these animals and why they went extinct. Studying these ancient animals also gives scientists important information that helps them understand the risks that today’s living animals face in our world.

Nice kids frontiers piece on #Pleistocene megafauna

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.20...

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Taphonomic insights into fossil preservation and accumulation of Pleistocene Pongo‐bearing assemblages from Tham Khao Phak Kut in Krabi, Peninsular Thailand This paper presents the first systematic taphonomic study of cave deposits from the newly discovered fossil site of Tham Khao Phak Kut cave (TKPK), Ao Luek District, Krabi Province in Peninsular Thai...

Our new paper has been published in the Journal of #Quaternary #Science! 🥳 Find '#Taphonomic insights into #fossil preservation and accumulation of #Pleistocene Pongo-bearing assemblages from Tham Khao Phak Kut in Krabi, Peninsular #Thailand' here >>
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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#Archaeology #PaisleyCaves #Pleistocene #AncientTechnology
#PeoplingOfTheAmericas #GreatBasinArchaeology #HumanAdaptation

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A black Smilodon faces off with a gladiator. Who will win?
#smilodon #ice_age #gladiator #sabertooth #pleistocene #bigcats

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Possible Ice Age horse molar next to bison molar. Science Museum of Minnesota. Another incredible Ice Age find from my good friend Bill in 2018 —  New Ulm, Minnesota.

Every one of these teeth and bones helps us answer a bigger question: Were Ice Age horses still roaming Minnesota later than we thought?
Follow along as we work through all twelve specimens and uncover what the dates reveal.

#Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #IceAgeMinnesota #RadiocarbonDating

Possible Ice Age horse molar next to bison molar. Science Museum of Minnesota. Another incredible Ice Age find from my good friend Bill in 2018 — New Ulm, Minnesota. Every one of these teeth and bones helps us answer a bigger question: Were Ice Age horses still roaming Minnesota later than we thought? Follow along as we work through all twelve specimens and uncover what the dates reveal. #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #IceAgeMinnesota #RadiocarbonDating

Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.

🐴 #FossilFriday — Lower horse molar (SMM P2020.7.34) from my hometown ❤️‍🔥. Specimen 7 of 12 headed for radiocarbon dating. #LostBones updates on Substack: substack.com/@marcusbrand...

👇 What do you think this molar’s age will come back as — Ice Age or more recent?
#Pleistocene #Equus #CitizenScience

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DNA barcoding reference dataset revealed overlooked diversity and clarified biogeography of fishes in the largest European river system – Volga River This study represents the first thorough genetic assessment of freshwater fishes from the Volga River Basin – the longest (3,690 km) river in Europe. DNA barcode sequences (COI) were studied in 84 spe...

The first thorough #genetic assessment of the Volga River Basin is here!

Researchers #barcoded 84 #fish species, discovering 7 species new to the region (incl. 2 invasives) and 3 new phylogenetic lineages. The Kama River is highlighted as a vital #Pleistocene refuge and Arctic faunal corridor. ⤵️

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Figure 2. Images of Centorus rufipes from Kusgan Lake (A–G) and subfossil late Pleistocene remains from Suzun-1 site (H,I) [9]. (A–C) These represent the habitus of adult female (A) and male (B,C), dorsal and lateral views; (D–F)—habitus of older larva, dorsal, ventral and lateral views; (G,H)—aedeagus, dorsal and lateral views; (I)—left elytron. Scale bar is 2 mm (A–F,I) and 1 mm (G,H).

Figure 2. Images of Centorus rufipes from Kusgan Lake (A–G) and subfossil late Pleistocene remains from Suzun-1 site (H,I) [9]. (A–C) These represent the habitus of adult female (A) and male (B,C), dorsal and lateral views; (D–F)—habitus of older larva, dorsal, ventral and lateral views; (G,H)—aedeagus, dorsal and lateral views; (I)—left elytron. Scale bar is 2 mm (A–F,I) and 1 mm (G,H).

#LiteratureNotice Dudko et al. Did Cold Resistance Influence the Success of the Halobiont Darkling Beetle #Centorus rufipes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) During the Pleistocene? doi.org/10.3390/inse... #Beetle #Beetles #darklingbeetle #Pleistocenebeetle #Pleistocene

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First paper by Cristi for her PhD thesis:

Velasco-Flores & al. in press | Life-position succulent #Euphorbia L. fossils buried in #Pleistocene explosive volcanic deposits from #Tenerife, Canary Islands, #Spain | RPP: doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#openaccess #Palaeobotany

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Prehistoric Mammal Partial Skull Studies. 
Made with an Apple Green Prismacolor Pencil. 

Top Left: Short Face Bear Jawbone 

Top Right: Mammoth Vertebrae

Middle Left: Cave Lion Lower Mandible 

Bottom Left: Mammoth Tooth

Bottom Right: Map of Alaska

Prehistoric Mammal Partial Skull Studies. Made with an Apple Green Prismacolor Pencil. Top Left: Short Face Bear Jawbone Top Right: Mammoth Vertebrae Middle Left: Cave Lion Lower Mandible Bottom Left: Mammoth Tooth Bottom Right: Map of Alaska

Boneyard Alaska (P1)
Partial Bone Studies

References: www.instagram.com/theboneyarda...

#bones #fossils #prehistoric #mammals #Pleistocene #sketch #traditionalart #alaska #coloredpencil #animal #animalart #paleontology #paleoart #wildlife #wildlifeart #nature #sciart

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A man in a green tee-shirt (Prof Andy Gale) recording Chalk stratigraphy and collecting samples at Keswick Chalk Pit, near Norwich, UK. The excavated chalk is white, but the weathered chalk surface is green with algae and has shrubs growing on it.

A man in a green tee-shirt (Prof Andy Gale) recording Chalk stratigraphy and collecting samples at Keswick Chalk Pit, near Norwich, UK. The excavated chalk is white, but the weathered chalk surface is green with algae and has shrubs growing on it.

Pleased to have helped Andy Gale in his research - storvaxt.blogspot.com/2020/05/clin.... He's inspired me to find out more about early #Pleistocene #barnacles in the Norwich Crag Formation.

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📑 #Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution, 218 #OpenAccess
"Species delimitation based on phylogenetic analyses..."
Hassanin, A., Jullemier, E. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#Mammalia #Alpha_taxonomy #DNA_barcoding #Cryptic_species #Pleistocene
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

🦒 isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

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Sometimes you just gotta sculpt big extinct lizards-s-s-s Megalania, Austrialias largest lizard from the Pleistocene!

#pleistocene #sculpting #megalania #lizard

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Lower p2 horse molar (side view) found near Olson's Point in Buffalo Lake

Lower p2 horse molar (side view) found near Olson's Point in Buffalo Lake

Lower p2 horse molar (side view) found in 1976 on Olson's Point south side of Buffalo Lake

Lower p2 horse molar (side view) found in 1976 on Olson's Point south side of Buffalo Lake

Horse molar occlusal view.

Horse molar occlusal view.

#LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🐂🦥🐪🐟 Was on the road this week with@dr-crocogator.bsky.social to retrieve this beauty, specimen #4, found on Buffalo Lake in from Wright County, Minnesota.

www.wrighthistory.org
📖 Notes: substack.com/profile/7473...
#pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience

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Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico Additional data from an adjacent ancient lake support a 23,000-year-old age for human tracks in New Mexico.

Dated human footprints from the White Sands area of New Mexico suggest that people were in North America by ~23,000 calibrated years before the present.

The stratigraphic data...spans >23.6 thousand years to ~17.0 thousand calibrated YBP.
#Pleistocene
#PreClovis

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Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations Organic items from the Great Basin broaden understanding of complex technologies in the Pleistocene.

“Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations”…

— interplay of #culture, #climate, and #technology in the #Pleistocene.

— 15 different plant and animal taxa, including the oldest known physical remains of sewn hide.

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I can’t quite explain how but somehow I remember these animals.
#Pleistocene #naturewriting #sabertoothedcat

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A 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London.

A 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London.

Peter Stibbons holding a 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London.  Peter is driving forward a project to digitise fossil collections relating to the Victorian collectors Alfred Savin and Anna Gurney - see https://www.cromer-savin.co.uk/.

Peter Stibbons holding a 3D-printed replica in brown plastic of a fossil mandible of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis. It shows two mandibular rami with rows of molar teeth in. The original is in the Natural History Museum, London. Peter is driving forward a project to digitise fossil collections relating to the Victorian collectors Alfred Savin and Anna Gurney - see https://www.cromer-savin.co.uk/.

Members of the Norfolk Museums team and  fossil collectors discussing the 3D-printed rhinoceros jaw, seated around a table at Cromer Museum. The jaw is made of brown plastic.

Members of the Norfolk Museums team and fossil collectors discussing the 3D-printed rhinoceros jaw, seated around a table at Cromer Museum. The jaw is made of brown plastic.

Awesome 3D printing brings a fossil Stephanorhinus jaw from the West Runton Freshwater Bed out of @nhm.org stores - thanks to Peter Stibbons and Cromer Savin Project team www.cromer-savin.co.uk, and special thanks to @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social for funding.
#Norfolk #Pleistocene #Geology

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This'll be interesting: ancient #carnivore turnover in the Middle #Pleistocene

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104...

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The Oldest Sewn Hide in the World Came from an Oregon Cave When you can't survive winter without complex clothing, everything about how you live changes.

The oldest sewn hide ever found came from an Oregon cave. It’s elk, stitched with plant-and-hair cordage, and it dates to 12,000 years ago when winter survival depended on fitted clothing. #Archaeology #Pleistocene #GreatBasin www.anthropology.net/p/the-oldest...

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430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/4300...

#archaeology #archaeologynews #pleistocene

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Thoughts on my favorite #Pleistocene #Megafauna species...

I remember at 8 years old waiting all day by the TV for Walking With Beasts to air on #DiscoveryChannel. "Next Of Kin" was the episode that captured me the most

#Paleontology #IceAge #CenozoicMammals #PaleoSky #NaturalHistory #Deinotherium

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Scruffy-looking woman wrapped in a lot of ragged pelts whittling on a sapling she is holding.

Scruffy-looking woman wrapped in a lot of ragged pelts whittling on a sapling she is holding.

Artifacts dug up in southern Greece may be the oldest wooden tools ever discovered. They bear signs of shaping by #earlyhumans in the #Pleistocene. They suggest our species used wooden tools 40,000 years earlier than previously demonstrated.

Read more: buff.ly/M0RSwRY

📸 University of Reading

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Mixed media artwork of a Columbia’s mammoth fossil overlayed by a highway map of Lincoln county Nebraska.

Mixed media artwork of a Columbia’s mammoth fossil overlayed by a highway map of Lincoln county Nebraska.

The Columbian mammoth fossil I worked from for this painting was found in Lincoln county, Nebraska (the map depicted). I was inspired by the state’s Highway Paleontology Program.

Lincoln County Mammoth, Acrylic & charcoal on paper, 12”x12”

#mammoth #Pleistocene #megafauna #fossil 🦣 🐡 #paleoart

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Magic lantern slide depicting two views of one of the Homotherium latidens canines found by McEnery in Kents Cavern in Jan 1826. The teeth are scimitar-shaped and have distinctive serrated edges. The hand-painted label reads "Pre-historic Man. Canine Tooth of Sabre toothed Lion from Kent's Hole Mac. Enery."

Magic lantern slide depicting two views of one of the Homotherium latidens canines found by McEnery in Kents Cavern in Jan 1826. The teeth are scimitar-shaped and have distinctive serrated edges. The hand-painted label reads "Pre-historic Man. Canine Tooth of Sabre toothed Lion from Kent's Hole Mac. Enery."

Jan 1826. Rev. J. McEnery discovered 5 canine teeth of Homotherium latidens in Kents Cavern, Devon - the first evidence of this species in Britain. Later magic lantern slide depicts one tooth, based on 1826 drawings by Mary Buckland (neé Morland).
#fossilfriday #histsci #Homotherium #Pleistocene

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Saltavano? Correvano? Mangiavano l'acacia? Le molte controversie sui canguri giganti del Pleistocene - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri Tra tutte le creature sovradimensionate andate incontro all’estinzione al termine del più recente periodo comunemente identificato come un’era glaciale del pianeta terra, oltre la metà appartenevano a...

Saltavano? Correvano? Mangiavano l’acacia? Le molte controversie sui canguri giganti del Pleistocene
www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43831

#animali #canguri #macropodidi #preistoria #pleistocene #australia #erbivori #ecologia #ambiente #conservazione #evoluzione #fossili #paleontologia #eraglaciale

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6 heces de perezoso gigante.

6 heces de perezoso gigante.

Heces del perezoso de Shasta (Nothrotheriops shastensis), encontradas en la cueva Rampart, que vivió en el Pleistoceno y se extinguió en el Holoceno, hace 10000 años. 🏛️Museo Estatal de Arizona #Pleistoceno #Pleistocene #Holoceno #Holocene

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A black-and-white pencil sketch on paper of a bull Platycerabos dodsoni (a prehistoric bovine with flat, forward-curling horns) confronting a Greater Sage Grouse. The bull has its front legs slightly spread and its head fully angled down such that it and the grouse are eye-to-eye. The grouse has its tail-fan spread wide.

A black-and-white pencil sketch on paper of a bull Platycerabos dodsoni (a prehistoric bovine with flat, forward-curling horns) confronting a Greater Sage Grouse. The bull has its front legs slightly spread and its head fully angled down such that it and the grouse are eye-to-eye. The grouse has its tail-fan spread wide.

Slightly delayed flocking #Paleostream sketch, a bull Platycerabos confronting a particularly aggressive Sage Grouse on the open plains of Nebraska. Platycerabos was an enigmatic bovine known from one strange skull, and little-acknowledged since the 1930s. #pleistocene #paleoart #bovid

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Far-reaching hunter-gatherer networks during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe Geochemistry of stone tools reveals unprecedently large social ties among European hunter-gatherers during the Last Ice Age.

#Solutrean artifacts discarded at Peña Capón, Central #Iberia, were sourced in Southwest #France, 600 to 700 kilometers away. This demonstrates social networks of unprecedented geographic scale maintained during ∼1400 years during the Last Glacial Maximum”
#Pleistocene
#Trade
#LGM

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