Turning the globally significant Nullarbor’s limestone cave landscape into an industrial site with suburbs ?
“They put it slap-bang on the most intensively karstified area of the Nullarbor...This issue is not just about avoiding damage to a few caves. It’s about protecting the whole landscape.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/scientists-sound-the-alarm-for-nullarbor-plain-limestone-caves-and-unique-underground-creatures
#biodiversity #stillness #caves #megafauna #energy #Nullarbor

Palaeontologists find #collagen #biomarker to identify ancient #Australian #megafauna, notable because it’s more durable than #DNA: https://www.sci.news/paleontology/megafauna-peptide-markers-13956.html #science #biology #palaeontology #paleontology #australia

3-Jun-2025
Ancient #collagen can help identify a “#wombat the size of a #hippo” in the fossil record
Scientists find new markers to identify species from fragments of fossilized bone and help us understand mysterious #megafauna #extinctions

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085325 #science #evolution #fossils

#Palaeontology #science #megafauna #DNA

Palaeontologists look at bones which to us look just like a rock, but they see a fossil. The problem is that bone fragments can be very fragile and so are difficult to establish the creature that they came from. But DNA is helping! But even DNA can deteriorate, so what then! Scientists have found that examining the short chains of amino acids found in ancient bones can help to determine the species.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/collagen-megafauna-australia-identify/

They once ruled like mammalian titans—until climate and humans took them down. The incredible rise and fall of giant sloths. #megafauna #evolution #extinction

https://geekoo.news/taming-giants-losing-legends/

Pleistocene Glyptodont tail "spike" osteoderm. Recovered from Florida's Peace River. 50mm diameter.

From the Galactic Stone and Ironworks collection. Not for sale.

#fossil #fossils #pleistocene #MegaFauna #paleontology #PeaceRiver #BoneValley #glyptodont

By physically engineering their environments, #megafauna such as #dinosaurs curbed #fruit #seed sizes—a role that now may be filled by humans www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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@Broadfork The runner ducks enthusiastically forage new growth on the comfrey. So I can say the team does forage, digest, and drop comfrey enriched fertilizer. #ducksofmastodon, #megafauna, #gardening, #minnesota, #comfrey.

Ich will #Waldelefant|en! Die Ausrottung der #pleistozän|en #Megafauna in #Australien und #Europa, später dann auch in den #Amerika|s durch die verschiedenen Menschenpopulationen markiert für mich den Beginn des Prozesses, der heute in #Klima- und #Biodiversitätskrise kulminiert; alles andere sind Schnörkel im seit damals bestehenden ökologischen Horrorbild.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000267881/europaeische-waldelefanten-wuerden-es-bei-uns-auch-heute-noch-gemuetlich-finden?ref=rss

#Klimakrise #Artensterben #Jagd #Anthropozän #Biodiversität #Ökologie #Ökosysteme

Before humans arrived, climate chaos wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos. New fossils reveal how fast nature can turn deadly. #Paleontology #ClimateChange #Megafauna

https://geekoo.news/when-giants-fell-how-climate-chaos-doomed-australias-giant-kangaroos/

Verschwundene Riesen: In Deutschland könnte es noch heute Elefanten geben – wenn wir Menschen nicht wären. #Waldelefant #Elefanten #Eiszeit #Megafauna
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/waldelefant-koennte-noch-heute-in-europa-existieren/

@rootsandcalluses Sighting a mouflon in the north of Germany is a good thing. Some of the large mammal ancestors remain free range in 2025. #megafauna, #extinction.

Way ahead of you I went to the #ancient #sloth 🦥 #cave https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/prehistoric-giant-ground-sloths My take here https://www.salon.com/2024/08/23/massive-extinction-the-demise-of-darwins-ancient-giant-sloth-has-lessons-for-the-present/ #darwin #evolution #chile #megafauna

#direwolf #deextinction #megafauna

#StoneAgeBeasts is a book about the #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Some of the artwork in it is a little weird, but it’s a decent introduction to these ancient creatures. Read more of my thoughts on it here:

https://dinodadreviews.com/2025/03/05/stone-age-beasts/

Read my piece, "#Darwin and Cultural #Genocide in #Argentina" https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/02/27/darwin-and-cultural-genocide-in-argentina/ #evolution #Mapuche #Tehuelche #indigenous #Milei #Pampas #Rosas #megafauna #PuertoMadryn #Patagonia #science

A White Rhinoceros crosses the road behind our vehicle. Breath-stopping sighting.

#KrugerNationalPark #Kruger #SouthAfrica #Africa #Rhinoceros #wildlife #nature #rhino #megafauna

https://youtu.be/fg1fMtCShb8

This has got to be the most amazing thing I’ve read this week, Evidence is mounting that large sandstone caves in Amazonian South America, large enough to comfortably walk through and the longest with 1,500 metres of tunnels, were carved out by giant ground sloths. Yes, ground sloths!

“The South American palaeoburrows might be the largest ichnofossils known so far.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00216-x

#archeology #palaeontology #MegaFauna #GroundSloth #Brazil #amazon