The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️
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Oops,
Pocket mammoths really existed. I only knew them from Elder Scrolls Online:
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Pocket_Mammoth_(pet)
But according to @wikipedia, they also existed on Crete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammuthus_creticus
Image from @uesp
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Edited 329d ago
Largest complete dinosaur claw found in Gobi Desert
"Named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, the previously-unknown Cretaceous dinosaur had two-digit hands with lethal curved claws nearly a foot long."
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72808
Dinosaurs discovered in the past:
Edited 160d ago
#Palaeontology / #Paleontology picks of the day:
➡️ @alberta_palaeo_society - Alberta Palaeontological Society
➡️ @biorxiv_paleo - bioRxiv Palaeontology Feed
➡️ @AltonDooley - Palaeontologist, Executive Director at Western Science Center in California, expert on real life mastodons
➡️ @ashinonyx - Postdoctoral fellow, studying large Arctic carnivores at end of Pleistocene
➡️ @drmambobob - Evolutionary palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in zoology
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