Skull of the most famous saber-toothed cat of all time, Smilodon fatalis. This species was a dominant predator of Late Pleistocene North America, only going extinct after the arrival of humans. reddit.com/gallery/s6lecr
Sculptures of Naumannβs Elephant (Palaeoloxodon naumanni) at Nojiri Lake Museum of Naumann Elephant, Japan. This species lived during the middle and Late Pleistoceneβs.
Fossil remains of a dhole have been found in just one site in North America. The dhole originated in Asia, yet it inhabited Mexico during the late Pleistocene. It was likely to be more widespread in North America than the fossil record indicates according to researchers.
The Marsupial Lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, had blade-like premolars that it used to sheer the meat of other giant marsupials of Late Pleistocene Australia. reddit.com/gallery/rzdfdj
The Bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was a species of medium large sized antelope that inhabited South Africa from the Pleistocene to Late Holocene. Going extinct in 17th century. Its closest living relatives are the Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger) & the Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus).
The Conquered Lorikeet (Vini vidivici) was a large species of lorikeet that inhabited the Cook, Marquesas, and Society Islands during the Pleistocene and late Holocene. It was driven to extinction around 1300 by humans.
Voay robustus, the largest predator of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Madagascar.
Syncerus acoelotus was a large species of bovid that inhabited Africa from the Late Pliocene to the early Pleistocene. It was larger than the still extant Cape/African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) which is its closest living relative and was probably its ancestor as well.
A Pleistocene jaguar and a South American smilodon clash over a sloth kill in late Pleistocene Brazil.
Elasmotherium is an extinct genus of large rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during Late Miocene through Pleistocene, existing at least as late as 39000 years ago in Late Pleistocene.
Orcinus citoniensis by Jaime Bran. This tiny species of Orca lived from the Late Pliocene to the early Pleistocene and could possibly be the ancestor of todayβs Orca (Orcinus orca).
Tracking the last elephants in Europe during the WΓΌrm Pleniglacial: the importance of the Late Pleistocene aeolianite record in SW Iberia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1β¦
The extant pronghorn is just the only surivor of four genera that existed in the Late Pleistocene nps.gov/articles/000/tuleβ¦
Lower jaw fragments of Callorhinus gilmorei, a close relative of the still extant Northern fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene of Japan and western North America.
Small Hands- Animated Short Film. Set in the late Pleistocene, featuring a smilodon π― and a dire wolf πΊ. Started this in September and finished it this month :) youtu.be/Dn56Qrg0WLQ
A large bull Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) walks past a Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) with a snake kill in the Late Pleistocene of Mexico. Credit goes to ladalbarran2000.
Extinct island fauna of the Canaries and the Mediterranean by Artbyjrc. Most of these species lived during the Pleistocene and became extinct during the middle and late Holocene. The main factor being of course, humans.
Fauna on the Mediterranean islands in the late pleistocene. (Art by Peter Schouten). reddit.com/gallery/rbocnl
The largest Pangolin that ever lived, meet the Asian Giant Pangolin (Manis palaeojavanica). Range: Probably occurred only in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java but who knows! Lived in the Late Pleistocene to possibly early Holocene. Compared with an extant Javan Pangolin. A close relative.
A pair of Cynotherium sardous (aka, Sardinian Dholes), stalk a small Sardinian Mouse in the Late Pleistocene on the formerly conjoined larger island of Sardinia and Corsica. By HodariNundu.
I noticed that there are less New World Vultures in North America than South America. Was this true during the Late Pleistocene when both continents shared more of their fauna, or if not, what vultures were shared?
New bird records for the Late Pleistocene of the American continent recovered in Central MΓ©xico and their paleogeographic implications sciencedirect.com/scienceβ¦
A Pleistocene jaguar and a South American smilodon clash over a sloth kill in late Pleistocene Brazil.
Paleoecological Conditions of Yuka Mammothβs Habitat and the Yano-Indigirka Lowlandβs Vegetation Patterns during the Late Pleistocene - Paleontological Journal link.springer.com/articleβ¦
The Lanner, Laggar, Saker, and Gyrfalcon make up the subgenus Hierofalco. The radiation of today's surviving Hierofalcons took place around the Eemian interglacial about 130,000β115,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Pleistocene.
New insights into cave hyena ethology and the implications for territorial competition with hominins in Late Pleistocene north-west Europe: the case of Caverne Marie-Jeanne (Belgium) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/dβ¦
Paleoecological Conditions of Yuka Mammothβs Habitat and the Yano-Indigirka Lowlandβs Vegetation Patterns during the Late Pleistocene - Paleontological Journal link.springer.com/articleβ¦
A late pleistocene to holocene archaeological record from East Kalimantan, borneo sciencedirect.com/scienceβ¦
"Is this your king?" Black Howler Monkeys find an unattended Smilodon populator cub in Late Pleistocene Paraguay. Art by Dhruv Franklin.
Reconstruction and fossils of the giant rhino, Elasmotherium sibericum (also known as the βSiberian Unicornβ)from the Late Pleistocene of Siberia. Art be WillemSvdMerwe.
High-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene β early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China sciencedirect.com/scienceβ¦
A new extinct species of Margarobyas Owl (Strigiformes) from the Late Pleistocene of Cuba and the evolutionary history of the endemic Cuban bare-legged owl (M. lawrencii) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1β¦
The Altai-Sayan region is one of the last remnants of the Mammoth steppe. In my opinion that would be a perfect place to do a large scale late-Pleistocene rewilding project. reddit.com/gallery/qh2yqn
Australonyx aquae is an extinct species of ground sloth that lived in Brazil during the Late Pleistocene researchgate.net/figure/Sβ¦
A pair of Red tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) attack and harass the now extinct and absolutely massive Woodwardβs Eagle (Buteogallus woodwardi) in the Late Pleistocene of western North America. Woodwardβs was probably an open habitat species, much like the Golden Eagle.
A pair of Cynotherium sardous (aka, Sardinian Dholes), stalk a small Sardinian Mouse in the Late Pleistocene on the formerly conjoined larger island of Sardinia and Corsica. By HodariNundu.
DEATH FROM ABOVE! A Cretan Giant Owl (Athene cretensis) ambushes a Cretan Deer (Candiacervus ropalophorus) on the island of Crete in the Late Pleistocene. Both species went extinct in the Holocene because of humans. The bird was up to 60cm tall and was likely flightless or somewhat flightless.
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Journal of Human Evolution Volume 161, December 2021, 103075
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Author: Nicolas Bourgon
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103075
Abstract Tam PΓ Ling, a cave site in northeastern Laos, has yielded the earliest skeletal evidence of Homo sapiens in mainland Southeast Asia. The reliance of Pleistocene humans in rainforest settings on plant or animal resources is still largely unstudied, mainly due to poor collagen preservation in fossils from tropical environments precluding stable nitrogen isotope analysis, the classical trophic level proxy. However, isotopic ratios of zinc (Zn) in bioapatite constitute a promising proxy to infer trophic and dietary information from fossil vertebrates, even under adverse tropical taphonomic conditions. Here, we analyzed the zinc isotope composition (66Zn/64Zn expressed as Ξ΄66Zn value) in the enamel of two teeth of the Late Pleistocene (63β46 ka) H. sapiens individual (TPL1) from Tam PΓ Ling, as well as 76 mammal teeth from the same site and the nearby Nam Lot cave. The human individual exhibits relatively low enamel Ξ΄66Zn values (+0.24β°) consistent with an omnivorous diet, suggesting a dietary reliance on both plant and animal matter. These findings offer direct evidence of the broad utilization of resources from tropical rainforests by one of the earliest known anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248421001275
A view of Makauwahi Sinkhole from the southwest side of Kauai as it might've appeared during the late pleistocene to ~3,000 years ago, prior to human arrival.
The Late Pleistocene extinctions of carrion eaters reflects a reduction is size of Megafauna
A herd of Late Pleistocene Horses, Art by Tom BjΓΆrklund. reddit.com/gallery/qsur4f
18,000 years ago, late Pleistocene humans may have hatched and raised the βWorldβs Most Dangerous Bird.β arkeonews.net/18000-yearsβ¦
A scene from the Grand Canyon during the Late Pleistocene. Art by Julius Csotonyi.
Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene imagine-fun.com/human-setβ¦
Does anyone know what this is? Found near the coast in Bermuda. Local rock is mid to late Pleistocene Limestone. Iβm guessing a kind of coral? reddit.com/gallery/r513sm
Wingegyps cartellei, also known as Wingeβs Condor or Vulture was a tiny species of Condor that lived in northern South America from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene. It was even smaller than todayβs Lesser Yellow headed Vulture! The smallest new world vulture alive today. reddit.com/gallery/q9pjxc
The wolf hawk Buteogallus irpus, a probably late Pleistocene hawk from the West Indies (illustration by William SuΓ‘rez)
A view of Makauwahi Sinkhole from the southwest side of Kauai as it might've appeared during the late pleistocene to ~3,000 years ago, prior to human arrival
