#mastodons

[geopsych]

From last October. The pods were still hanging on the honey locust tree because the large Ice Age mammals that used to eat them and spread the seeds just never come around anymore. I read but haven’t tested it that the stuff inside the pods around the seeds is sweeter than honey (not recommended b/c I don’t know if it’s toxic). Somebody back in the Pleistocene had a sweet tooth and it seems to be mastodons. Remnants of these pods have been found in their manure. And the huge thorns and spines at a certain height on the trees? They were to discourage mastodons from pushing the whole tree over to get the pods just out of reach! Now you know.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 61: Middle Ages and Much Earlier

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[antiqueanimals]

Mastodon Americanus by Charles R. Knight. 1907. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 25, No. 2. November/December 1986.

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[uwlmvac]

Mammoths and mastodons are both extinct ice-age megafauna, distantly related to today's elephants. The mammoth eats grass, and its teeth are flat to allow crushing the vegetation. The mastodon has a series of high bumps on the teeth to allow it to eat browse such as twigs. Mammoth remains are found predominantly on the plains, and mastodon predominantly in the eastern woodlands. However, the La Crosse area has remains of both species, suggesting that the vegetation here at the end of the ice age was a mosaic of both grassland and woodland that could support both species. 

Photo: Single tooth from: Left-mammoth, right-mastodon. The mammoth tooth is fragile and some of the tooth is broken, exposing the deep tooth enamel. Mammoth lose their teeth as they are worn down, and new ones emerge to replace them.

For more information about mammoths and mastodons visit MVAC’s video at: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/educators/archaeology-terms/?letter=m&term=164813

[deafeningcreationearthquake]

[cyberpunkboytoy]

So there's the idea of "kitchen table poly," AKA "everyone in the polycule needs to be able to sit at a kitchen table together and get along like friends."

One of my roommates just came up with a counter idea, which is "poker table poly." Everyone in the polycule must be enemies. No one is allowed to get too chummy or they're kicked out. They all also likely owe eachother money.

[kingsmoot]

i've been on tumblr since 2009 and we do the "this website is getting shut down" panic every few years like clockwork but no matter how much anyone plugs their bluesky (and i like bluesky! i have one!) there is simply no socmed platform that replicates tumblr in the way that i enjoy using it. nowhere else can i trade 10k word posts back and forth between strangers who are just as obsessed with something as me. they'll have to carry me off this platform feet first.

[abbiistabbii]

[cmerrill2]

Speculative Creative Nonfiction

Nonfiction is not made up, right? But I wanted to wander off into my imagination while writing this essay and this is the result, just published in Sentience Literary Journal: “Mastodons, Mammoths, and Morula��� by Cheryl Merrill

[paleoart]

Early Bird

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[weepingwidar]

Yui Sakamoto (Japanese, 1981-2024) - Untitled (2022)

[alex-fictus]

M is for...?

All of the M names in my Paleo Party Cenozoic section! I have so many M names, I had to split them up into a few parts! Are there any I'm missing? (The Maned Wolf is often called a Living Fossil, so therefore they fit into the paleo party still. They are not extinct, no one panic)

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[convelocity]

Daughter of Darkness

More of the series: Wyll | Gale I Lae'zel I Astarion

[thoughtportal]

[amnhnyc]

This Fossil Friday, meet the Warren mastodon: the first complete American mastodon (Mammut americanum) skeleton found in the United States! This fossilized proboscidean was discovered in a bog in Newburgh, New York in 1845. It was remarkable for being preserved in the position in which it had died some 11,000 years ago—standing upright with its legs thrust forward and its head tilted upward, likely gasping for air under mud in which it had become mired. Shortly after its excavation, the Warren mastodon’s tusks began to decay. But thanks to Museum preparators, the tusk fragments were reassembled and restored to their proper length of 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m).

See the Warren mastodon up close in the Hall of Advanced Mammals! The Museum is open daily from 10 am–5:30 pm. Plan your visit.

Photo: D. Finnin / © AMNH

[netscapenavigator-official]

If Staff ever implements the editing method from Mastodon, we'd be fucked.

Currently, on Tumblr, if you edit a post, all the former reblogs stay exactly the same.

On Mastodon, editing a post changes all the boosts and simply notifies the people who interacted with the post prior to the edit.

Now, can you imagine that on Tumblr?

Surely giving the OP the ability to edit their post after hundreds of thousands of people have reblogged it would be a perfectly balanced feature that I'm sure the Tumblr' userbase has never abused before.