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The mighty Siberian duo, Elasmotherium sibiricum (Thin Plate Beast) and a Saiga antelope. Elasmotherium lived during the Late Pliocene (Piacenzian Age 2.588 MYA) to Late Pleistocene (39,000 years ago) and was named by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1808. With four

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2021-02-18

Megatherium. Early Pliocene to Early Holocene, 5–0.010 million years. Extint gebus of ground sloth. Skeleton in Natural History Museu, London (via Wikipedia, Creative Commons). Art by Maurice Wilson.

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2020-11-06

Nuralagus rex was a giant rabbit that lived on Minorca until the Pliocene. After Minorca briefly connected with Majorca, Nuralagus is replaced by Myotragus in Pleistocene & Holocene deposits, suggesting the caprine might have outcompeted the leporid.

Art by Ceri Thomas.

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2020-10-31

Bread dude no. 19
Acemitas are soft and sweet bread buns

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2020-10-29

It's Let's check out one of the oldest big cat fossils known - this skull from Panthera blytheae, an early extinct big cat.

This fossil was found in the Tibetan Himalaya Range and is estimated to be from the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene (~6 MYA)!

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2020-10-24

[Megalodon]
meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.

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2020-10-21

Lady Epone from an obscure scifi book series I love!

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2020-10-20

For I would like to introduce Protororqualus wilfriedneesi, a new balaenopterid genus from the southern North Sea.

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2020-08-14

SHARK WEEK FACTS- Tuesday
Charcharocles Megalodon

-Lived through the Early Miocene to the Pliocene

-Destroyer of Whales

-Would probably speak in a gruff Australian accent

-Once thought to be an ancestor of the Great White Shark, now known to be in its own group: Otodontidae

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2020-08-13

Hexaprotodon sivalensis is an extinct species of hippo from the Pliocene of south Asia.

(Credit: WillemSvdMerwe)

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2020-08-12

The American zebra or Hagerman horse was an equid from North America that lived during the Pliocene epoch.

(Credit: InkArt)

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2020-07-10

And this is the above-mentioned Burtele foot (3.4 Ma)...
A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations https://t.co/dcUgRtaZLl

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2020-07-03

I finally have a bit of time to sketch in the morning. The recent study on Thylacosmilus published last Friday made me want to sketch some portraits of this amazing Late Miocene-Pliocene South American sparassodont

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2020-06-29

A new discovery represents the most diverse European herpetofauna across the latest Miocene/earliest Pliocene, comprising at least 30 distinct species and two new genera and species of

G.L. Georgalis, A. Villa, M. Ivanov, D. Vasilyan, M. Delfino
https://t.co/BDBjaJuNjC

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2019-11-08

Sketch of Amphicyon, one of the commonly-called Bear-dogs that living in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe during the Miocene and Pliocene. I started this sketch yesterday and finished it today. I’ve lays liked Bear-dogs a lot!

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2019-10-28

Gomphotherium, shovel tusk, lived through the Miocene into Pliocene, 23-5 million years ago. Stood at 3m/9.8ft tall. Discovered in Texas. Related to elephants🐘. Had a shorter neck and long tusks on the lower jaw, perhaps for scooping up food.

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2019-10-17

I just found out that today is so I decided to quickly sketch one of the oddest extinct rabbits, the LARGE (50 cm tall, about 15-20 kg) Nuralagus rex, which lived on the island of Menorca 5 to 3 million years ago (Miocene and Pliocene)

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2019-09-29

Nuralagus rex, aka BIG CHUNGUS, was a giant rabbit that lived in the island of Minorca in Baleares during the Pliocene.

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2019-08-09

A recent discovery in Panama provides a glimpse at shark-whale trophic interactions from the Pliocene!

Dirley Cortés, Carlos De Gracia, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Carlos Jaramillo, Aldo Benites-Palomino, and Joaquín Enrique

https://t.co/tVIUx14u98

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2019-08-09

New paper! Part of my work during my 2017th internship at ! We report shark-cetacean interactions from Eastern Panama’s Pliocene. https://t.co/8U4mELSzmX

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2019-08-05