Mammals | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 13 May 2025 21:46:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Geographic Insights about Big Bear Lake https://boneblogger.com/geographic-insights-about-big-bear-lake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geographic-insights-about-big-bear-lake Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:46:06 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2443 Most visitors to Big Bear Lake come from the urban sprawl of Southern California, city dwellers at heart. Few have a real appreciation of the underlying geology or geography that circumscribes the place they visit for the rest and recreation found at Big Bear. They are exquisitely well positioned to appreciate the built environment, from […]

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]]> U. S. Camel Corps https://boneblogger.com/u-s-camel-corps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-camel-corps Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:22:29 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2371 Few people know that the United States had a Camel Corps.  About 1836 Major George H. Crosman suggested to the United States government that camels could be used as pack animals in Florida during the Seminole Wars. Few persons in the government took this suggestion seriously but Senator Jefferson Davis was an advocate of this […]

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]]> What to call the giant cat from the Ice Age? https://boneblogger.com/what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:20:19 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2275 The Ice Age of the recent past was a fascinating time, full of superlative animals, especially the mammalian megafauna of North America. The Ice Age, also referred to as the Pleistocene epoch, lasted from 1.9 million years ago to 10,000 years ago, and was characterized by a series of glacial advances and retreats across much […]

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]]> Mammoth protein designed to be cool https://boneblogger.com/mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:00:05 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2257 Researchers were recently able to isolate and study woolly mammoth hemoglobin and compare it to the modern African and Asian elephants. They isolated the genes from DNA that code for the creation of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in our blood. This was done for both the modern elephant species, as well as from DNA […]

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]]> Dangerous animals—bears https://boneblogger.com/dangerous-animals%e2%80%94bears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dangerous-animals%25e2%2580%2594bears Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:59:48 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1953 Truth is stranger than fiction. The most recent human fatality caused by a bear took place in the wilds of Ohio. Well, sort of the wilds—just outside of Cleveland. It seems that a young man, Brent Kandra, was tending to a captive bear when the bear attacked and killed him. The bear was owned by […]

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