🦘🦴 For years, scientists thought any #kangaroo weighing over 160 kg would be too heavy to hop without snapping its tendons. But new #research on 40,000-year-old #fossils shows that #IceAge giants like Procoptodon goliah were built like heavyweight athletes – with shorter, thicker bones and extra-wide heels.
#science #paleontology #wildlife #nature #discovery #evolution #australia #learning
The Scratazon Empire is on a recruitment drive in our galaxy. Join now! ...Or else!! #scratazon #cartoon #transformation #tftg #tftuesday #space #scifi #iceage #tim_kangaroo
No scene from prehistory is quite so vivid as that of the mortal struggles of great beasts in the tar pits. In the mind's eye one sees dinosaurs, mammoths, and sabertoothed tigers struggling against the grip of the tar. The fiercer the struggle, the more entangling the tar, and no beast is so strong or so skillful but that he ultimately sinks.
—Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month"
“This center formalizes and elevates the Tar Pits’ role as the world’s leading hub for Ice Age research,” [Lori] Bettison-Varga said. “It’s a gift for science at a time when we feel the importance of helping the public understand the scientific process is paramount.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-01-22/la-brea-tar-pits-research-center-makeover
Systems are the modern mammoth problem
This sat in my drafts for a couple years.
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I had a flippant reply to this tweet.
https://twitter.com/cxgonzalez/status/1613913921110568962?t=53WCgCN0MVnWUhN81Lf0mA&s=19
And then I spiraled thinking about it.
By the end of ice ages, humanity hunted large mammals like mammoths to extinction. We also eliminated giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, among others.
Hunting these creatures required cooperation, coordination, planning, and execution. They needed many people, acting in concert by understanding and trusting each other to behave in predictable ways. Mutual understanding.
Modern project and operations management needs the same. Managers struggle when all the steps of a plan have to be mapped out in part because analysis can sometimes miss things. Acting in concert by understanding and trusting each other is required for success.
Managers can struggle getting to where workers work well together. Turnover changes team dynamics. Events external to work can create a minefield. People are full of wild variables to navigate. They are the solution, but it takes work.
Systemization creates the promise of making it better. Create an understanding of how it all works. Make the processes consistent, acting in concert by being understood and trustable by all. Like a mammoth hunting party.
Systems work is different. The work can be sustainable. The human element is a difficult challenge here too. So a system to coordinate the systems. At some point the systemization becomes the mammoth. It’s what we hunt and why we cooperate, but in the end we are going to extinguish it. Well, replace it with another “better” system. Better meaning a different one we think will be more efficient but that’s only because we haven’t used it yet. Odds are it’s going to be more complex with more issues and challenges.
What I love about automation is eliminating the need for myself. I create things that do my work so I don’t have to. It frees myself for other things… like doing more automation. The dream of AI is to have something that will create my automation for me so I am freed to… I dunno. Whatever I would do if I didn’t have to do anything?
#cooperation #coordination #iceAge #mammoth #mammothProblem #projectManagement #trust
Turn back the clock to the last glacial period, and the American South was a taiga...only unlike any we know today.
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/01/21/the-glacial-american-south-a-lost-world/
This post's featured image is Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest at Clingman's Dome by Brian Stansberry (2011) (CC-BY 3.0)
#science #climate #paleoclimatology #climatology #meteorology #weather #worldbuilding #glacial #iceage #lastglacialmaximum
"When researchers dissected the frozen mummified remains of an Ice Age wolf puppy, they found a partially digested chunk of meat in its stomach: the remnants of the puppy’s last meal 14,400 years ago. DNA testing revealed that the meat was a prime cut of woolly rhinoceros"
14-Jan-2026
Woolly #rhino genome recovered from #IceAge wolf stomach
Researchers from the Centre for #Palaeogenetics have managed to analyse the #genome from a 14,400-year-old #woollyRhinoceros, recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ancient #wolf.
How Mammoths Beat the Cold
Two stories in one: how did beeches of Europe survive the Ice Age, and how did the serfs outwit the lord so hard that the almost-ruined castle had to be offered as the first prize of the national lottery!
Click and find out 😉
https://kapjasa.si/en/a-castle-in-the-woods/
#kiteaerialphotography #castle #Renaissance #Snežnik #CastleSnežnik #history #beeches #IceAge #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #Slovenia
Therapist Reacts to ICE AGE - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpRQP9JLVc
#CinemaTherapy #Psychology #Therapy #Reaction #MovieReaction #IceAge #Disney #20thCenturyFilm
Hey... it's snowing again... what a surprise.
Our first winter in Barrie has been eventful as we've now gone 12 days with 2cm or more snow accumulation per day, and had a streak broken yesterday of 10 straight days of heavy snow / snow squall warnings.
According to local media the 2025 November/December snowfall amount is the highest in 25 years. Based on my substantial lack of meteorological knowledge I am predicting less snow than normal for the rest of the winter. The lakes are cooling quickly and icing over due to the colder than normal temperatures. That should reduce the lake effect snow squalls coming off of Georgian Bay. (Delivered in my Cliff Clavin voice).
How ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could unlock the secrets of living to 100
A recent genetic study reveals part of the secret of exceptional longevity in Italy and finds that this may lie deep in the prehistoric past of the European continent...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/hunter-gatherer-dna-and-secrets-to-living-100/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #huntergatherer #anthropology #iceage
NME Japanが選ぶ今週聴くべきこの曲：2025/12/19
https://nme-jp.com/blogs/163249/
#nmejp #BLOGS #Beatles #DaBaby #Iceage #Kali_Uchis #Megadeth #Paul_McCartney #Rage_Against_The_Machine #Richard_Ashcroft #Sleaford_Mods
PRESERVE - Découverte du DLC Ice Age [FR]
アイスエイジのエリアス・ロネンフェルト、サイキックTVの“The Orchids”をカヴァーした音源が公開
https://nme-jp.com/news/163157/
#nmejp #NEWS #Iceage #New_Song
🦌 Small but speedy! The Dwarf Pronghorn once darted across Ice Age Los Angeles, a tiny relative of today’s pronghorns that called the region home thousands of years ago.
Fossils found at the #TarPits help us uncover how these pint-sized runners thrived in a world of giants.
La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
@tarpits.org #globalmuseum #IceAge #mammals
This picture is brought to you by me trying to figure out how someone would pick up a kitten if their only option to do so was a big cat mouth with saber canines
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #PaleoArt #SciArt #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Sabertooth #Cartoon #Animal #Cat #IceAge #DigitalArt #Mastoart #CreativeToots
What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
More palaeo events this week!
Monday, Dec. 8: Virtual Museum Tour @ Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Online)
Wednesday, Dec. 10: Dino Dentist @ Edmonton
Friday, Dec. 12: APS Winter social! Everyone is invited - show off your fossils or just come hang out fellow palaeo nerds.
Sunday, Dec. 14: Giants of the Ice Age @ Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Online)
