The author rewatched Prehistoric Planet and was itching to make their own stories of the animals in it, I just *know* it.

Babies of big-clawed herbivores trying to reach food high up a tree:

I maintain that if she weren’t a stupid kid and didn’t run at this bull right where he could see her, she could’ve killed him.

Something about this photo reminds me of mounted dinosaur skeletons for some reason. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a closeup of a dire wolf skeleton (with an open mouth for the coolz) like this before. Photo from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Instagram page

It’s finally here… A full-sized replica of Sue the T. rex’s tooth. The root is a lot more compressed than I was expecting. Obviously this is a taphonomic artifact from the tooth this was molded from.

It’s honestly insane to me how much argued-over meta stuff is attached to Dragon Ball. From all the different dubs to *incorrect colors* in certain renditions, and everything in between like misconceptions on what Akira Toriyama/his editor wanted.

What did you do to make kitty angry? (Art by Mauricio Antón)

Oh right, what do they actually say? “It’s technological advancement/it’s like cars vs horses/get used to it”? Fuck right off.

I’m no fool: the Bay films clearly differentiating Ironhide and Ratchet in build was DEFINITELY an improvement. But even though their G1 counterparts are pretty much just palette swaps of each other, I can honestly forgive this b/c they’re drastically different enough in color.

It doesn’t feel like a Friday. It’s been three weeks since I was getting ready to go to Florida, so here are Alligator coprolites from Haile 7C and 7G. Two are filled with the remains of bony fish. #FossilFriday

My ass really watching Monsters we Met for Christmas

Update: it now says it’s expected to come tomorrow, which would turn this into a slightly late Christmas gift to myself.

TIL there's an 8,000-year old archaeological site on Zhokov Island that preserved almost 400 polar bear bones. Polar bear bones usually aren't common in these settings, but this was an exception. These bears were regular prey for the ancient Zhokov hunters.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. At bare minimum, happier than these folks.

Despite my stance on the Late Quaternary extinctions, and regardless of yours, I will say this. It IS depressing to think of your favorite ice age beasts – which you've now seen in wonderful display on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age – as...human chow.

My T. rex tooth cast is expected to come the 29th!

This was from the cave bear segment in Prehistoric Planet. If we lived in the Pleistocene, it could’ve gotten a segment all to itself. (Also please help me identify it, Google Lens was no help and I’m no good with invertebrates)

Bjorn at the end of Ancient Animal Tales E25:

New species of jewel-babbler from Papua New Guinea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I like seeing Smilodon and the dire wolf side by side. It’s so interesting comparing the two anatomically, knowing that these were two different solutions to doing the same thing in the same ecosystem.

Since I’ve inevitably been thinking about the Ice Age films again, so I just wanted to say Diego honestly had as understandable of a reason to hate humans as Manny did in the first film, but moves past that just like Manny.

"HOW'D IT GO CHAMP?!?!" "Hey, where's your buddy?" "Did your meal turn invisible??? XD" "Your tail's supposed to go BETWEEN your legs!!!" *manic hyena laughter*

(Very brief) Primal Season 3 preview www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_o...

1. Isn’t using hounds to chase an artificial scent trail just drag hunting? What animal rights advocate has a problem with that?* 2. If you can care for hounds for fox hunting, you can care for them as normal pets. 3. “Here’s an AI image of a small proportion of 20k” YAWN…

I keep hearing fire truck sirens going off lately and wonder why so many people are starting fires at this time. And then I remember it’s probably just a fire truck Santa run. I did see one the other day.

Paleoart idea: a pile of bones from different extinct megafauna species being burned in a fire by humans, symbolizing their role in the Late Quaternary extinctions. Pasa Otero 5 preserves burnt megamammal bones, a small minority of which are identifiable.

I saw a photo on Instagram someone made of Creative Beast’s woolly mammoth and Gorgosaurus figures. So I decided to take my own, albeit far less cool since I didn’t put them in a snowy background.

One thing I like about these Carcharodontosaurus and Giganotosaurus models is that they depict them as being pretty powerfully built and muscular. The ONLY things on them that are small are the forelimbs.

Most interactions between Late Pleistocene macraucheniids and equids were probably uneventful. But Macrauchenia and Xenorhinotherium were at least double the mass of E. neogeus or Hippidion. If an aggressive skirmish happened, these macraucheniids would probably have the edge.

Favorite predation scene in Prehistoric Planet Ice Age? Successful and failed ones both count.

Macrauchenia wasn’t the only one walking around with a weird face in Pleistocene South America. Hippidion was a horse that appears to have possessed a prehensile upper lip like a black rhinoceros. Art and figure from Bernardes et al. (2013)

Cave bear vs cave lions by Petr Modlitba

Canis orcensis was a species of canid that lived in Spain around 1.6 Ma. It was more adapted for hypercarnivory than other similar sized canids of the early Pleistocene of western Europe. (Figures from Martínez-Navarro et al., 2021) (Art by Antonio Monclova)

I know what to do with the Cyberzoic lizard dragon once/if I preorder it and I actually get it.

It may be “nothing new”, but the fact that it is theoretically possible for a rat to crawl up your toilet and bite you while you’re…doing your business…is…

The Ice Age films aside, which would make for the best winter-themed prehistoric special/movie? - A straight ice age documentary (à la WWB or PhP) - A story w/ talking but otherwise realistic ice age animals (à la Ancient Animal Tales) - A prehistoric fantasy (à la Primal)

Always really interesting to see archaeological evidence of interactions between people and extant animals. There’s also a shark victim from the Jōmon period of Japan and a Sadlermiut polar bear victim; I made a Twitter thread about the latter once. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ursus etruscus vs Canis etruscus in the Early Pleistocene Almenara-Casablanca site of Spain. This is part of a larger illustration by Dani Navarra.

Completely unexpected thing in the mail today. I forgot when these were supposed to come.

I was imagining this thing ambushing a rhino coming down for a drink or something. Primal shit right there.

I feel as if people act like every polar bear weighs a literal ton. Polar bears can get big, but their average mass varies considerably. On the graph to the left, most populations have males averaging ~400-500 kg. Hell, adult males can weigh as little as 300 kg!

I am willing to buy this toy set literally just for the polar bear. I have never seen an articulated polar bear figure before.

Plants in the shadows: Bridging the gap in paleoecology and paleoart www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not a fossil this time around, but just as interesting. These are Clovis tools with blood residues from megafauna. Tools in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd images had blood residues positive for Proboscidea, Equidae, and Bovidae, respectively. #FossilFriday

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Based on recent events I'm now a little worried that any artwork I share will get TOO much traction to the point where some brainless AI bros will find it and turn it into an AI meme and/or crypto coin against the original artist's will.

“I’m *100%* sure that baby’s gonna die”

I’d like a prehistoric fiction where a big predatory “amphibian” poses a threat, most notably to a large mammal or reptile.

Ohhh okay, I think I see it