Notable: Glyptodonts and megatheres were herbivores
Notable: Bocherens, Hervé, Martin Cotte, Ricardo A. Bonini, Pablo Straccia, Daniel Scian, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Francisco J. Prevosti. 2017. Isotopic insight o...
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"I would run screaming away"
This is such an incredible story about the “Clovis comet” hypothesis, I don’t know where to start: “Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth”.
Storkicide
I have to point to Robert Krulwich’s blog post, “Killer Storks Eat Human Babies”, about the giant extinct Maribou stork relatives of Flores.
Rewilding Siberia
The Associated Press ran an article last week about Sergey Zimov and his attempts to “rewild” a small corner of Siberia:
Extinct marsupial lion in Australian rock art
Speaking of super-predators from the past, Natural History Magazine has a short article describing Australian rock art that may depict the extinct marsupial ...
Bringing back the overkill
New Scientist has a primer on extinct animals that might be candidates for resurrection by cloning. My preference is the short-faced bear: