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Day 28: Sivatherium giganteum

This massive, almost Moose-like giraffid lived in the Pliocene epoch of India. Yours truly is included for scale :)

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2023-03-29

Hippopotamus Gorgops

Hippopotamus gorgops also called Gorgon-eyed river horse, is an extinct species of hippopotamus. It first appeared in Africa during the late Miocene, and eventually migrated into Europe during the early Pliocene. It became extinct prior to the Ice Age. Wit

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2023-03-02

MEGANTEREON SP.
The Dirk-toothed Megantereon is usually associated with Pliocene and middle Pleistocene faunal assemblages. A jaw found in the Chadian site of Toros Menalla, dates the origin of Megantereon back to Late Miocene, around 7 Mya.

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2023-01-24

The problem is bigger than you can imagine - All of modern civilisations' infrastructure is designed for Holocene conditions. We could be heading back to the Pliocene within a century - I'm guessing that infrastructure ain't going to be much use by then.

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2023-01-05

Happy New Year with Nuralagus, giant leporid from Pliocene Menorca!🎄🐰The past year has been difficult in many ways, and I hope this year will be better. Many plans for drawings for 2022 have not come true, so I want to fulfill them this year.

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2023-01-02

Hippopotamus Gorgops

Hippopotamus gorgops also called Gorgon-eyed river horse, is an extinct species of hippopotamus. It first appeared in Africa during the late Miocene, and eventually migrated into Europe during the early Pliocene. It became extinct prior to the Ice Age. Wit

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2022-09-17

Thylacosmilus atrox, a fake saber tooth cat (a.k.a a Sparassodont, closely related to marsupial) carnivore from middle miocone to pliocene.

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2022-09-17

Rhynchotherium was a bizarre looking elephant that lived in North America during the Miocene & Pliocene.

(Credit Margret Flinsch)

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2022-06-22

POV: You're in the late Pliocene

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2022-05-16

Reconstruction of the notoungulate Charruatoxodon, from the Pliocene-Pleistocene from Uruguay.

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2022-05-14

At around this time Africa was a true croc paradise. In Pliocene Kenya, Euthecodon coexisted with up to 4 other species. Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, Crocodylus checchiai, Eogavialis and Mecistops. 16/20
📷D.A. Iurino
📷Mauricio Anton
📷Thesupermat

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2022-03-25


If you don't know who that shark is that is Megalo & yes based on his name he is named after the extinct shark species Megalodon
An extinct species of mackerel shark that lived about 23 to 3.6 million years ago, during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene

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2022-02-20



📝 New discovery of rare damage in the of reinforces the biogeographic of Eurasian

🔗 https://t.co/fmA5kV9dTB
♦️ Hazra et al. | of and

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2021-12-18

I’m so depressed but anyways look at this animal it’s called the thylacosmilus it’s a marsupial from South America. It became extinct after the land connection between North and South America was established during the middle of the Pliocene Epoch (about 10-3 million years ago)

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2021-12-12

Argyrolagus is an extinct marsupial from the Early Pliocene. They lived in what is now Patagonia, Argentina.

(Credit Satoshi Kawasaki)

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2021-12-06

New paper out! The virtual endocast of a Pliocene balaenopterid from Italy with chimp-like encephalization quotient!

Brain, Behavior and Evolution - doi: 10.1159/000519852

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2021-11-12

(3) From Miocene Iberia to Pliocene India, almost-if-not-every species of animal that inhabited those ecosystems then are now vanished. And yet, comparing the ecological *communities* as a whole, a remarkable continuity is observed.

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2021-08-14

Thread. Study/sketches of Early Pliocene pacific coast Soith American birds and mammals (except Livyatan which is older, from the latest Miocene). In preparation for several commissioned illustrations.

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2021-08-13

Some fossil Giraffes
1.Giraffokeryx punjabiensis (Miocene,India);
2.Shansitherium tafeli (Miocene,China);
3.Sivatherium giganteum (Micocene,India);
4.Bramatherium perimense(Micocene to Pliocene,India to Turkey)

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2021-08-02

The "Ardi" skeleton from Aramis, Ethiopia, provides the most complete cranial, dental, and postcranial evidence of any hominoid from the Early Pliocene. Some of its features point to a relationship with later remains.

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2021-05-12