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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “megafauna”

• Coconut-Carrying Octopuses And Their Komic Kin

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 592
  The newest video of a galloping mollusk gave me some ideas on what else might be out there. Images.
  4 days ago

• NorAm Megafauna Held Out For Past 13k Years Ago

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 133
  Woolly mammoths and prehistoric horses grazed on the North American plains for several thousand years longer than hitherto assumed This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ...
  5 days ago

• Mythical Monsters, Cryptozoology: A Study on the Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Other Species

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Product DescriptionBook Description: “The core of the book is about dragons: Western, Chinese, and Japanese, although it also covers the Sea-serpent, the Unicorn, and the Chinese Phoenix. Gould hypothesized that the dragon was based on an unknown, very rare animal, a huge reptile with wings, which became extinct in ...
  1 week ago

• Mythical Monsters, Cryptozoology: A Study on the Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Other Species

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Product DescriptionBook Description: “The core of the book is about dragons: Western, Chinese, and Japanese, although it also covers the Sea-serpent, the Unicorn, and the Chinese Phoenix. Gould hypothesized that the dragon was based on an unknown, very rare animal, a huge reptile with wings, which became extinct in ...
  1 week ago

• Murder Mystery Solved: Moose Did It

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 592
  Police spokesman Ulf Karlsson says "the improbable has become probable." Image.
  2 weeks ago

• 1935 Sewer Gator Story Confirmed

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 592
  The New York Times , without fanfare, has just confirmed a significant event in alligator-in-the-sewers history. Images.
  3 weeks ago

• Sea Shepherd - Whale Defense Meat Grinder?

  
  Underwater Thrills:Swimming With Sharks — Authority: 428
  Were not sure if anyone stopped for a minute during the "1 million dollar big check moment" for Sea Shepherd last month to really think about the acquisition of their high speed Earthrace vessel . Renamed the Ady Gil and painted a nice black, the self styled eco warriors from Sea Shepherd have been touting ...
  4 weeks ago

• Scientists zero in on reason for mammoths’ demise

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 506
  It wasn’t climate change, asteroid impact, or habitat change. Human hunting was maybe a factor- Why did the giant bison, mammoth, mastadon, giant ground sloth, etc. disappear so quickly? There are a number of hypotheses. This article describes some progress. Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth ...
  4 weeks ago

• Science Podcast, 20 November 2009

  
  Science Signaling — Authority: 498
  The demise of mammoths, mastodons, and other megafauna; strengthening memories during sleep; cleaning up after oil production from Canadas tar sands; and more.
  4 weeks ago

• Dung Fungus Prompts Rethinking of Mammoth Extinction

  
  Wired Mods — Authority: 760
  Scientists studied a fungus that lived in the dung of mammoths and other large mammals to try to determine what caused them to go extinct 13,000 years ago.
  4 weeks ago

• Cryptid Pymgy Hippo Shot in Oz

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 592
  Strange animal sightings have been commonplace in the area where this unexpected animal was killed. Are the explanations as to its origin correct? Images.
  4 weeks ago

• Clovis man and gomphotheres co-existed

  
  why I hate theropods — Authority: 106
  Gomphotherium image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Prehistoric man, giant animal coexisted The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the ...
  4 weeks ago

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