Pleistocene | 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 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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]]> Musk ox say no to hunting https://boneblogger.com/musk-ox-say-no-to-hunting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=musk-ox-say-no-to-hunting Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:33 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=896 As we face the uncertain effects of climate change ourselves in the future it is instructive to look back in time to see how other species fared. (See also a geologic perspective on the effects of climate change.) Paleontology is one of the main sciences involved in this research and so proves to be very […]

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]]> Giant Short-Faced Bear Reexamined https://boneblogger.com/giant-short-faced-bear-reexamined/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=giant-short-faced-bear-reexamined Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:44:49 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=354 As the old saying goes, looks can be deceiving. That is the theme of a new paper on the Giant Short-Faced Bear (GSFB), Arctodus simus, recently published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Figueirido et al., 2010). We have explored this beast in other posts (see below), and will no doubt do so in the […]

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]]> Giant Short-Faced Bear: a Northern California Original https://boneblogger.com/giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:55:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=28 In 1878, James D. Richardson explored Potter Creek Cave in Shasta County, California. He found the skull of a bear beneath several inches of cave dirt, and he sent the specimen to Edward D. Cope, who determined that it was the type specimen for a new species of American “cave bear” (Cope, 1879). When a […]

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