Saturday, 7 October 2017

The Thames Group of Whitecliff Bay

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After completing my dissertation fieldwork at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight, I will cover the sedimentology and palaeontology of the ...
Saturday, 27 August 2016

Mammoth Extinction

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The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna is a heavily debated topic, was it over hunting by man or was it climate change? We now have th...
Thursday, 25 August 2016

Pleistocene Settlement at Creswell Crags

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Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, UK, is a limestone gorge where settlements from the Pleistocene have been discovered. Although the caves were ...

The Fossilisation Process

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When a land dwelling vertebrate dies its carcass is commonly disarticulated, this means its limbs are removed, often by predators and scaven...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Buttercup the Mammoth

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Natural mummies have been found in a variety of locations around the world; bog deposits or tar pits, deep inside caves, glacier ice and in ...

Pleistocene Mammal Defences

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Tusks: A Mammoth could have used its tusks to defend itself like the modern day African Elephant. They would have been used to keep predato...

Coping With the Cold of the Ice Age

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In cold climates, plant material is rather scarce. It is usually limited to grasses, low lying shrubs and coniferous forests. Woolly Mammoth...

Smilodon Hunting

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The prehistoric predator, Smilodon , was an apex predator in North and South America. The animal would have hunted large prey such as bison,...

Mammalian Dentition

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Diagrams of the three types of mammalian teeth. Image credit Pearson Education Inc. The teeth of a carnivore consist mainly of sharp tee...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Mammalian and Human Evolutionary Timeline

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I did some work for Peterborough Museum and looked at the evolution of mammals and then humans so I am going to do a post on a timeline of t...

Evolution - A Brief Explanation

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Here I want to go through the basic principles of the Theory, the mechanisms of Evolution and the history of the theory. In 1859, Charles ...
Sunday, 21 August 2016

The Pleistocene Extinction

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This extinction is not as catastrophic as the Big Five that I discussed in a separate post, but here we see a massive 73% of large mammal ge...
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Saturday, 20 August 2016

Could We? Should We?

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I want to discuss the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius . The mummified remains of calves in the Siberian permafrost have given us a win...

Nurture or Nature?

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So far I've only been looking at the prehistoric animals once they are mature, but what about their offspring? Was it best to lay a clut...
Friday, 19 August 2016

Palaeoart: A Blast From The Past

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I thought it would be interesting to look at the older palaeoart, to see how much our interpretation of the fossils has changed. I've ch...