#paleo stuff

[mammoth-clangen]

saw these again at campus and thought I'd send them in !!!

Oh that's so cool, ty for sharing!! We had a Thylacoleo skull replica at my campus, which was pretty neat eve

I wish i had a replica of my own for tricky angles. I keep being tempted to buy myself a Bone Clones Smilodon but augh, postage is hellish from the US 😭

Side note: i really must wonder why people (in science no less) still use Prehistoric Wildlife's ugly af size charts?? JFC their proportions look nothing like the actual animals?? How can you get a LION that wrong fjhdjdjd??

Like, Prehistoric Fauna is Right There with this:

Which is gorgeous! And omg, they look like animals XD

Ok rant over and ty again for showing me your campus skulls!!! <3

[dinklebat]

Hey! Utah peeps!

I know this is mostly a shitpost blog but I’m gonna be serious for a second.

St. George Dinosaur Site (Utah) is looking for emergency volunteers from now until May!!

The city is trying to put a new power substation right next to the fossil bed, the construction of which has a high chance of destroying extremely important fossils.

They’re looking for any volunteers who are willing to do field work to excavate as many fossils as possible before construction begins in May.

If you’re interested in this project, here’s the volunteer form specifically for this event. For other programs and donations to the museum, check out their website!

[mammoth-clangen]

Probably a dumb ask but, are icefangs prehistoric cave bears? (Idk the proper name or term for them😔😔)

Nope, they're Smilodon fatalis!

If you're talking about Moon 7's silhouette's lack of saber teeth, may I direct you to this excellent summary of several papers? >:3

And (mild spoilers if you wanted to put things together on your own but)-

You should really look at this ref sheet quite closely...

[mammoth-clangen]

Did you hear about the incredible mummified homotherium cub That was recently discovered in Russia?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

HOLY SHOT OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS!?!?

(Oh OK so the answer is the paper was only released online 5 hours ago lolol)

Look how cute!! 🥺

I'm at work rn so I'll have a proper read later but the lack of carpal pad and suuuper wide paws are really interesting! Definitely something I'll include starting moon 9 >:3

Truly a dream come true, I love H. latidens sm and I'm definitely going to extrapolate cool features to the Fleet Fangs (H. serum)

Tysm for messaging this to me! Shameless plug for @fringeclan-rebirth , one of my favourite clangens ever and the art is done in watercolour!!

[mammoth-clangen]

What's Poppy carrying in her mouth in Moon 6 part 4? Is it a heart?

It's a shoulder!

Homotherium was known to disarticulate their prey (possibly to cache it for later) so she's brought Burnet a snack c:

Anatomy diagram below (not gorey but deep muscles can look freaky compared to superficial ones)

Source

[mammoth-clangen]

So I don't post/reblog unrelated things to this blog, like ever (intentionally), but I'm making 1 (one) exception it's kinda related if u squint

Eons is a wonderful source of accessible information that i often use as a research jumping off point, and Creative Beast Studios make excellent quality prehistoric animal models!

They're so close to their goal and have 5 days left. So if anyone wants to buy a Mammoth, nows your chance! 🦣

Eons Realistic Articulated Wooly Mammoth Figures

Scientifically accurate, articulated models of the Wooly Mammoth, Gompotherium, Moeritherium and Platybelodon, created by the minds at Creat

[mammoth-clangen]

Can Icefangs not run? or Is the Icefang we see in Moon 6 injured?

They can run, but not far!

Smilodon is an extremely bulky animal, especially compared to weirdly gracile Homotherium. I like to imagine the Ice Fangs as much more ambush-dependant, lunging out and either getting a good grapple or having to hide again. Compared to the Fleet Fangs, which can trott along nearly effortlessly, and have a very efficient loping stride; Burnet isn't breaking a sweat where the Ice Fang is spent!

Smilodon running by Mauricio Antón, note the lack of suspended gait!

This is part of the reason I'm not a fan of Moon 6.2; the distance seems way too short, but I had intended the Ice Fang to have chased Burnet across a large section of Steppe before losing her.

This wasn't clear from the art though, so that's my bad >:/

[mammoth-clangen]

Hi Pav it's Jade! What part of ye olde United States are the kitties currently located? What kind of animals would they frequently encounter that are long gone from our history books?

Oh hello JuniperClan Jade!

I honestly don't have an exact area set in stone. I know some people like to choose a precise location, which is always fun to read especially if you can go "hey I've been there!"

I like to play it fairly loose, so I get a bit of plausible deniable if I want to fudge my background biomes! XD

That being said, I'm a palaeontologist, so legally I have to have done my research or I get Fossilised 💀 so...

These two maps are 1000 years either side of Kindred Of The Mammoth's timeline, so imagine somewhere between the two cx

Images from here

The Kindred are, importantly, at a kind of biome junction. They are living in the mountainous temperate forrest but are not far from the Plains. This would put them in a sort of here-ish?

(Screenshot from Google maps of Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming ish area)

As for what species they cohabit with:

Image source

Lots! -Though not all were present across the whole continent, of course

We've so far seen a Smilodon, Large headed llama (a cria anyway), and marmot, but I plan to also have the namesake mammoths play a rather important role (hint hint, theres a lot of evidence of Homotherium hunting mammoth calves).

There will likely be plenty of cameos from other species as prey, competition, or even predators! Buuuut I don't want to promise big things in case I lose motivation and fail to deliver c':

Note: im not American! 🦘 I'm an Aussie, and my study was Australian megafauna (dromornithids anyone?), so take all this with a pinch of salt cx