Exploring our Lost Worlds
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Gradual extinctions and late survivorship:
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21 Jul 2021
(1) Extinction is rarely sudden. The exact point of vanishing for a species may be exceedingly hard to determine, with endlings (final individuals) of a given population almost certainly outliving the last confirmed specimens by sizeable spans of time.
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1 Jul 2025
Now updated with additional figures, don't miss our latest guest article on the South American extinctions, their causes, and the factors complicating our unravelling of the mystery!
28 Jun 2025
NEW at The Extinctions: a guest article exploring the extinctions in the South American tropical lowlands - the factors of climate, hunting and more - from the Cerrado savannas of Brazil to the Chaco of Paraguay and Argentina and beyond.
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28 Jun 2025
NEW at The Extinctions: a guest article exploring the extinctions in the South American tropical lowlands - the factors of climate, hunting and more - from the Cerrado savannas of Brazil to the Chaco of Paraguay and Argentina and beyond.
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13 Jan 2025
Check out the new article at TheExtinctions by @GottGro! Art by yours truly of course 😌 This year started with a lot of lions, but the true protagonists here are the ground squirrels :B
12 Jan 2025
NEW at The Extinctions: In this latest article, @GottGro traces the history of the European steppe since the late Pleistocene through one of its quintessential inhabitants: the ground squirrel, or souslik.
#extinction #macroecology #Holocene
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12 Jan 2025
NEW at The Extinctions: In this latest article, @GottGro traces the history of the European steppe since the late Pleistocene through one of its quintessential inhabitants: the ground squirrel, or souslik.
#extinction #macroecology #Holocene
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21 Nov 2024
NEW on The Extinctions - The Lost Rhinos of Europe
Everyone knows the woolly rhinoceros, a famous member of the Ice Age fauna, but are you familiar with the *other* lost rhinos that once haunted ancient Europe?
#extinction #megafauna
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8 Nov 2024
Violence...
I don't remember if I ever shared this picture I did a while back for @Theextinctions ! I want two things; a bear skull pole like that for my yard, and adding a proboscis monkey nose to the Neanderthal :B
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27 Aug 2024
Today on The Extinctions, @Hieraaetus reviews the new book Nature's Ghosts by @some_yeo, a wide-reaching exploration of the ways in which humanity has transformed the world's ecosystems over the last 100,00 years or so, and what this might mean today.
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3 Aug 2024
NEW on The Extinctions - Timor and the Lesser Sundas. The lost world of the Sunda Islands boasted dwarf elephants and giant dragons. In our latest article we continue to explore these islands and the demise of their megafauna
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9 Jul 2024
NEW on The Extinctions - Inner Melanesia, the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Archipelago.
Little known and rarely discussed, join us as we explore the palaeofauna of this unknown corner of Australasia, bridging New Guinea and island Oceania. #extinction
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29 Apr 2024
Interested in the late-Quaternary #megafauna #extinctions 🦣🐪🐘🦣🐆- check our new review of the patterns, causes, consequences & #Anthropocene implications bit.ly/4aBR9fI 🌿🌐🦘🐎 #pleistocene #mammals #paleoclimate #homosapiens #rewilding #ecosystem #defaunation
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29 Jan 2024
NEW on The Extinctions - Flores & Sumba, the ancient landscape, ecology and species-extinctions in the home of the world's last dragons.
#megafauna #extinction #Indonesia
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29 Dec 2023
Another quick doodle, inspired by fossil evidence of the Neotropical wild dog Protocyon (a cerdocyonine, that is, relative to the bush dog and maned wolf, but filling a dhole or African wild dog type niche), preying on an old, arthritic glyptodont :B
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3 Dec 2023
Two subantarctic bears (Arctotherium tarijense), hungry after a harsh winter, fight over a dead king penguin somewhere in Pleistocene Patagonia :B This was the southernmost bear, and the closest to a southern polar bear although it was actually a tremarctine (short-faced bear)
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3 Dec 2023
Your reminder that South America's southernmost regions were once inhabited by the Patagonian panther, a descendant of an early migration wave of jaguars that grew as big as tigers and preyed on giant ground sloths. These jaguars were likely paler and furrier than modern ones.
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19 Nov 2023
NEW on The Extinctions - Mid-Late Holocene Extinctions in the Yukon and Alaska & Implications for Future Restoration. The Yukon was the last remnant of mammoth steppe which continued far later than elsewhere...
The article was contributed by @LemoineRhys
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7 Oct 2023
NEW on The Extinctions - Evolutionary anachronisms are plant traits that are inexplicable unless seen in a prehistoric context. In part one of our latest article series contributed by @GottGro we examine these in a most delectable group - the pomes!
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12 Sep 2023
A potentially game-changing study in the debate surround the late-quaternary #megafauna #extinctions. Foregoing the usual focus on individual regions in favour of a global analysis.
12 Sep 2023
#Megafauna #extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 🦣🐎🐪🦏 -happy to see our #macroecology study on this debated issue out in #Anthropocene journal based on carefully updated data, led by @LemoineRhys👣
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21 Aug 2023
Don't miss our latest article!
19 Aug 2023
NEW on The Extinctions - The Great Auk, the lone flightless bird in the North Atlantic, went extinct in the 19th century. Despite seeming like a modern extinction, the species faced a slow decline and once inhabited a much wider area. Read more below:
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26 Aug 2023
Rich megafaunas were the norm across Earth's land masses from >30 million years ago until just 10-40 thousand years ago- here illustrations of #megafauna from North America 15 mio years incl #elephants (s.l.) 🐘🫏🐪 #megabiota
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