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What to call the giant cat from the Ice Age?

Greg — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:20:19 +0000

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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How big was the Giant Short-faced Bear?

Greg — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:38:35 +0000

The character of living things on land changed forever after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs on land and the marine reptiles in the oceans went extinct, leaving way for mammals and birds to evolve into those niches once held by the “terrible lizards” (dinosaurs) and other giant reptiles. Throughout the Cenozoic, […]

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Denning behavior in the Giant Short-faced Bear

Greg — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:33:55 +0000

One of the most exciting things in paleontology to me is when we can begin to tease apart how extinct animals, animals that humans often never set eyes upon, lived their everyday lives. I am often amazed at how my colleagues can drill deep into questions that at first seem unanswerable; using creative ways to […]

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