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Antillean Giant Rice Rat. Very large, nowadays extinct rat. As big as a cat, this species was once endemic to the Antillean island of Martinique. In 1902, a volcano erupted on the island, killing all but 2 human inhabitants. The eruption probably also led to the extinction of this remarkable rodent species
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A plateosaurus stands on a large rock on the shore of an ancient lake. This bipedal dinosaur leans forward to rest its hands on the ground as it looks out across the water. It has dark brown and orange scaly skin and a row of spikes lines its spine. A coniferous forest lines the lake, and puffy clouds fill the sky.
Even for dinosaurs, this plateosaurus is a truly ancient species. It lived in what is now Europe during the late Triassic period over 200 million years ago. It is described as a prosauropod and was likely related to the more well known sauropod dinosaurs such as diplodocus and brachiosaurus.
Though I've depicted it on all fours, the plateosaur was actually a bipedal dino. I've just depicted him hunched over for a bit of drama as if it sees something threatening on the water.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania - The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is commonly referred to as "The Cradle of Mankind." It is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, which stretches along eastern Africa. Olduvai is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania and is about 30 miles long. The gorge is named after the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant Sansevieria ehrenbergii, commonly called Oldupaai.
It is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and has been instrumental in furthering understanding of early human evolution. Excavation work there was pioneered by Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1950s and continued into the twenty first century by Professor Fidelis Masao of the Open University of Tanzania supported by Earthwatch.
The first artifacts in Olduvai (pebble tools and choppers) date to circa 2 million years ago but fossil remains of human ancestors have been found from as long as 2.5 million years ago. The earliest archaeological deposit, known as Bed I, has produced evidence of campsites and living floors along with stone tools made of flakes from local basalt and quartz. Since this is the site where these kinds of tools were first discovered, these tools are called Oldowan. It is now thought that the Oldowan toolmaking tradition started about 2.6 million years ago. Bones from this layer are not of modern humans but primitive hominid forms of Paranthropus boisei and the first discovered specimens of Homo habilis.
MARSUPIAL SEUDOBORIENA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pseudoborhyaena macrodonta . . . . . Ameghino, 1902
Infraclase: Marsupialia (Metatheria) ... Orden: Sparassodonta ... Familia: Borhyaenidae
Este es un mamífero marsupial extinguido.
Vivió en el Oligoceno superior (hace unos 25 millones de años) en la patagonia argentina.
Los miembros de esta familia de extintos mamíferos marsupiales sudamericanos vivieron desde el Paleoceno temprano al Plioceno temprano (alrededor de 63,5 hasta 5 millones de años).
Los integrantes de su género típico: Borhyaena ("como hiena"), que fuera descubierto en rocas del Mioceno temprano de la Argentina (hace 23 millones de años), tenían el cráneo grande, y fuertes dientes trituradores.
( 1 de febrero de 2010 )
Museo de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia,
ciudad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.
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Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
SEUDOBORIENA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pseudoborhyaena macrodonta . . . . . Ameghino, 1902
Infraclase: Marsupialia (Metatheria) ... Orden: Sparassodonta ... Familia: Borhyaenidae
Este es un mamífero marsupial extinguido.
Vivió en el Oligoceno superior (hace unos 25 millones de años) en la patagonia argentina.
Los miembros de esta familia de extintos mamíferos marsupiales sudamericanos vivieron desde el Paleoceno temprano al Plioceno temprano (alrededor de 63,5 hasta 5 millones de años).
Los integrantes de su género típico: Borhyaena ("como hiena"), que fuera descubierto en rocas del Mioceno temprano de la Argentina (hace 23 millones de años), tenían el cráneo grande, y fuertes dientes trituradores.
( 1 de febrero de 2010 )
Museo de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia,
ciudad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.
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Skull of a Columbian mammoth nicknamed "Zed" in the fossil lab at the George C. Page Museum.
For more about "Zed," see:
www.tarpits.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Page%20Museum%20...
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
"Project 23" refers to 23 large blocks of asphalt matrix that were excavated nearby during the construction of an underground parking garage.
The blocks, which way several tons each, are being searched one at a time by volunteers. The volunteers work meticulously to recover bones of all sizes, as well as remains as small as insects.
The volunteers start at the tops of the blocks, sawing away the wood sides of the box as they work their way down through the asphalt matrix.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Cast skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex. Specimen casting experts Research Casting International created a life size T-Rex for the museum. The actual fossil was found in Montana in 1991. The team made a mould of the fossilised bones, then took casts from the moulds to create extremely accurate new specimens. These were made in their large 4500 sq metre warehouse to accommodate the dinosaurs in their complete form. Research Casting International facility is in Ontario, Canada.
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Smilodon populator (Sabre-Toothed Cat)
HD video clip
ARMINIERINGIA ~~~~~~~~
Arminiheringia auceta Ameghino 1902
Infraclase: Marsupialia (Metatheria) ... Orden: Sparassodonta ... Familia: Proborhyaenidae
Sinónimos (Synonyms):
Arminiheringia cultrata Ameghino 1902,
Dilestes dilobus Ameghino 1902
La mandíbula de la fotografía proviene de un ejemplar encontrado en Chubut, ARGENTINA.
Este gran marsupial carnívoro vivió en el Eoceno inferior de la Argentina (hace unos 50 millones de años).
Este animal tenía un cráneo, excepcionalmente robusto, dotado de fuertes dientes.
Los caninos inferiores, en particular, eran excepcionalmente largos y se inclinaban hacia adelante.
Los molares y premolares sugieren una dieta carnívora.
Todo el animal era muy grande (alrededor de 1,8 metros de longitud).
Sus patas eran fuertes y robustas, y el aspecto general de este animal se asemejaba a un oso.
Era un típico representante del orden Sparassodonta, que se desarrolló en América del Sur ocupando los nichos ecológicos que fueron ocupados en otros continentes por los mamíferos carnívoros.
Las arminieringias eran muy similares a un grupo de carnívoros primitivos conocidos como creodontos.
Tres especies se conocen arminieringias, la más conocida de las cuales es Arminiheringia auceta.
El cuerpo fuerte y un cráneo armado con grandes dientes son netos indicadores importantes de una dieta carnívora, los caninos inferiores impares, que se inclinaban hacia adelante, indican que el arminieringia era un depredador especialista, pero no está claro exactamente cuál era su técnica para capturar sus presas.
( 1 de febrero de 2010 )
Museo de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia,
ciudad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.
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Volunteers and museum staff lie on the plywood decking, from where they reach down to excavate the asphalt matrix using hand tools as small as dental picks.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Entrance to Pit 91, a working excavation on the grounds of the Page Museum.
Museum staff maintain a "scorecard" on the information board, showing how many individuals of each species have been identified among the bones found here.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Saint Lucia Giant Rice-rat. Extinct since the 1880ties. These almost cat-sized rodents could only be found on the island of Saint Lucia.
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Uintatherium
HD video clip
ca. 1980-2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA --- Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton in Exhibit --- Image by © Richard Cummins/CORBIS
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
"Project 23" refers to 23 large blocks of asphalt matrix that were excavated nearby during the construction of an underground parking garage.
This photo shows several of the boxes that are waiting to be searched meticulously. Each box contains a block of asphalt matrix that weights several tons.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Woolly Rhinoceros)
HD video clip
An active asphalt seep on the grounds of the Page Museum. The asphalt is quite firm, but it will stick to one's fingers, requiring the use of hand cleaners such as those used by mechanics.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
ca. 1993, Midland Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada --- Teeth of a tyrannosaurus rex at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. --- Image by © Michael S. Yamashita/CORBIS
Visitors can stand in this gallery and look almost straight down on the excavation work in Pit 91.
La Brea Tar Pits / George C. Page Museum
Los Angeles, California
December 11, 2014
See: www.tarpits.org
Mandible partials of the Broad-billed Parrot (Lophopsittacus mauritianus) and a tarsometatarsus of the Mauritius Blue Pigeon or Pigeon Hollandais (Alectroenas nitidissima) from Mauritius. They were excavated during the Dodo Expedition in 2006. They are photographed at the dodo exhibition in the National Museum of Natural History 'Naturalis' in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Smilodon populator (Sabre-Toothed Cat)
Dodo (Raphus cucullatus). Dodos were giant pigeons that evolved on the Indian ocean island of Mauritius. Without predadtors, they lost the power of flight as they became larger. Dodos did not recognise human hunters or introduced animal predators as threats. There were last seen in 1662 and prob became extinct soon after that.
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Glyptodon