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[mammoth-clangen]

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In which Pounce's panic attack is interrupted by my FAVOURITE LITTLE GUY!!

U will learn more about him in part 2 uvu

Fun fact, I was gonna have Pounce stalking a giant pleistocene Pika but literally cannot find any reference to how big they were.

And then i realised pika are just,,, insanely tiny,,, so i used a marmot instead. I like marmots now, they're so chunky!

I drew Pounce with proper sabers by accident, big cats have milk teeth until they're 1yr old, whoops! Let's say it's uh... an effect... from baring them... being stressed out... yup

[teethands]

little snapshots of a mod i have been working on for a few days, cenozoicraft, understandably based around adding cenozoic animals to the minecraft world along with neolithic tools. its heavily based around hunting and utilizing animal parts. most of what is here is tamable and rideable with fun little taming mechanics, so dont expect to be able to waltz up to a smilodon. more to come soon

[vickysaurus-art]

350000 years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy Schwarzwald, spring has come to the mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of steppe mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the Oos river, while a Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks. With the harsh ice age winter in retreat for a few months, a flock of greylag geese migrates north, a buzzard hunts, and a small pack of wolves observe a herd of steppe bison and some roe deer.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Mammuthus trogontherii, the steppe mammoth, by Zdenek Burian.

Another dynamic mammoth piece by Burian, it kind of reminds me of Zallinger’s original idea for the woolly mammoth in The Age of Mammals. Steppe mammoths were huge, and Burian’s art captures a bit of how terrifying it might have been to stare one down.

[paigeoforacle]

Some dead friends from a weekend trip to the museum.

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Steppe Mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii)

(Photo from The Azov Museum)

Conservation Status- Extinct

Habitat- Northern Europe; Northern Asia

Estimated Size (Weight/Length)- 14 tonnes; 4.5 m tall

Diet- Leaves; Grasses; Shrubs

Time Period- Pleistocene

Cool Facts- The steppe mammoth was the largest mammoth of the Pleistocene, although not the largest elephant of all time. Being the ancestor to the wooly mammoth, the steppe mammoth had massive tusks that could reach 5 meters long on the bulls. Steppe mammoths most likely played a similar role to African elephants today. They would push down trees and create rivers with their tusks, playing a major part in the ecosystem. These mammoths most likely lived in small herds although their general ecology is lesser known due to so few skeletons being found. The steppe mammoth most likely went extinct due to a combination of climate change and overhunting from humans.

Rating- 13/10 (Ice Age baby 2: Electric boogaloo.)

[an-idiot-boy]

Oh no steppe warrior, I'm stuck in a cycle of grief and violence that will be the end of us both.

[identifying-prehistoric-wildlife]

Mammuthus primigenius, Homo neanderthalensis

I love this because like 99% of this kind of paleoart is patriarchal Man the Hunter type fantasies but these guys are just like “fuck it we’re outta here”

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Hangaras

Altura: 300 metros

Longitud: 600 metros

Peso: 200,000 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: Moscú [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Controles: Tierra Control [Excavación, Embestida Petrea] Fuego Control [Rayo Incandescente] Energia Control [Luminosidad] Agua Control [Glaciación]

Guarida: Siberia [Tierra: Teratoverso] Tundra Helada del Polo Norte [Avatarverso]

Aspecto: Mamut Estepario

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko, Toph

Kaijus y otras bestias: Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula

Kaijus y otras bestias: Kasai Rex

[paleoart]

The king of the siberian forests meets the queens of the siberian steppes.

About 10,000 years ago in the Russian Far East, a tiger walks along the limits of his forested territory beyond which a herd a woolly mammoths marches by.

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[mammoth-clangen]

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Special pliestocene rabbit?? Tragically, I couldn't find any specific evidence of Megabunnies so this is probably just a cottontail XD

I have come to increasingly dislike this part of the moon but hey ho >-<

The Ice Fang is not nearly as big as she looks on panel 3 but I'm supposed to be Going Fast so I'm not changing it c'x (her shoulder height isnt terribly higher than a Fleet Fang, she's just significantly bulkier)

Oh yeah I think this is the first time the name Fleet Fang is dropped in-comic, so by my own rules it's actually cannon now, yay!

Read on Comicfury

[mudcrabmassacre]

Bringing back mammoth: ❌️

Bringing back historic keystone species like carolina parakeet, dodo, thylacine, moa, and other driving ecosystem engineers of habitats that are today still suffering their incredibly recent absence: ✅️✅️✅️

We are bringing mammoths back. Yay or nay for cloning and playing god

you can’t ask me about the ethics of this to be honest because at heart I’ll always be the evil scientists in Jurassic Park wanting to play god and bring forth unseen animals.

that said it would be more useful to use this method to restore more recent extinctions such as elephant birds, dodos, or thylacines. I don’t see much benefit to the ecosystem by dropping in giant elephant things when most other species of that era are also extinct. I just think seeing extinct animal is cool.

[boobookittenartblog]

A herd of Muskox are accompanied by a bull Woolly mammoth somewhere on the Mammoth Steppe.

Art by agustindiazart

[whereserpentswalk]

There are old gods, gods older than human history. Even the vanir and the titans are young to them. The faeries only talk about them in legend, and the djinn only whisper their names in secret. They are gods so old no human remembers their name, gods of the mammoth steppe and the green Sahara, their last strings upon this earth kept alive by faded paintings on cave walls. They are the gods the nomads prayed to when dodging Saber toothed cats, and the gods that the old shammens evoked when the seas at doggerland. Some of them so old they were prayed to by the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Their names are forgotten but they stalk the forgotten woods, still existing at the heart of the dreaming, waiting for us. They're so ancient they no longer even look like the gods of humanity, only like strange shapes, and eldritch things. And when they come to humanity now, they come as alien strangers, as things of the night, as things to be feared. These are the elder gods, those first gods that seem so alien to us, long alienated by their subjects, long changing and scheming. Perhaps they still remember us, remember what we once were. Perhaps they miss us.

[proteusolm]

Okay pardon my wild horse rant, but I'm going to rant about wild horses. The debate over if feral domestic horses should be left to their own devices to "fulfill the role ancient horses did" drives me nuts. I keep seeing people claim that North America had wild horses until as recently as 6000 years ago as justification, which isn't entirely untrue, but it's entirely irrelevant to the conversation of modern day feral horses. If you actually read the eDNA studies, it is abundantly clear that this isn't when the wild horses died out where feral horses are now. The 6k figure is specific to the what were once mammoth steppe ecosystems in Alaska and the Yukon, a refuge in which many Pleistocene mammals lingered much longer than they did elsewhere. This does not indicate that the rest of North America aught to have the same species as it did in the Pleistocene. Our ecosystems are not the same as they were then. Our ecosystems were already not the same as they were then well before european contact. There isn't evidence of wild horses being present anywhere near that long in the continental US.

Regardless, horses that have been domesticated for thousands of years from Spain aren't the same thing as the wild horses which roamed North America even if they're technically the same species. If you want to reintroduce megafauna, an actual extant wild animal called the bison is right there. Trying to replace wild horses that largely died out naturally in the early Holocene (yes, I know indigenous subsistence hunting was likely a factor along with the major climactic shifts at the time. No, I don't especially consider that to be an unnatural cause.) with domestic horses is silly. That isn't the same animal, and they don't need restoring. We need to focus on conserving and rehabilitating modern ecosystems, not restoring Pleistocene fauna.

In Europe there are rewilding projects using domestic horses and cattle, but they have so thoroughly decimated their ecosystems and wiped out so much of their wildlife that they're basically building from scratch. It's a very different context to North America. We don't need to be leaving domesticated horses out on their own so people who feel romantic about the idea of the freedom of a "wild" mustang can see a foal get ripped apart by coyotes or whatever. I don't view it differently than if someone was advocating for releasing dogs into the woods to fulfill the role their wild ancestors did; We don't need to do that, wolves are right there and make a hell of a lot more sense to conserve. We shouldn't be skipping over animals that lived in an area 100 years ago in favour of ones that lived there 10,000 years ago.

[thewoollyviking]

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to make into a post for ages but always forget to. But now I wanna just finally say it!

So Homeworld arrived on Earth roughly 6000ish years ago, right?

I always wished there was more attention to what Earth was like for the humans who were living under the shadow of the invading gems. Especially since at this point it was at only the very beginning of the Bronze Age for our Earth.

But there is one thing in particular that I will always love imagining…

Rose could have encountered Mammoths…

To explain, in our real history, Woolly Mammoths had slowly gone extinct across Eurasia and North America as their main habitat, the Mammoth Steppe was being slowly phased out with dense forest. Eventually this left just one sole population to be at the last place on Earth they could take refuge on, a small island that had at one point been connected to Siberia by a land bridge before becoming cut off…

But while they had access to food, it wasn’t enough to feed a population of full sized mammoths long-term, and they really didn’t have any predators… which led to a selective pressure to be smaller…

Leading to a Mammoth that’s barely larger than today’s bison. Impressive for sure, but quite humble compared to their mainland predecessors.

But this trade off worked out for them, at least for a while, because while Mammoths eventually became extinct in mainland roughly 10,000 years ago, the dwarf mammoths on Wrangel Island lasted until 4,000 years ago!

By the time they eventually died out, the pyramids were already built.

And if the same is true for SU’s version of Earth, and there were indeed mammoths occupying far off islands up north, I like to think Rose would have loved to see them. (Art below made by TheChekhov).