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antiqueanimals · 1 year

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Mastodon Americanus by Charles R. Knight. 1907. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 25, No. 2. November/December 1986.

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#prehistoric #prehistoric mammals #pachyderms #mastodons #american mastodon #Charles Knight

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ancientorigins · 11 months

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Florida's ancient elephant ancestors – gomphotheres - have emerged from the depths of time. Paleontologists in northern Florida have uncovered a massive animal graveyard from the Miocene Epoch, offering the scientists a chance to piece together the story of when elephants roamed North America.

#mammoths #mastodons #elephants #USA #paleontology #fossils #ancient #history #ancient origins

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uwlmvac · 3 months

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Mammoths and mastodons are both extinct ice-age megafauna, distantly related to today's elephants. The mammoth eats grass, and its teeth are flat to allow crushing the vegetation. The mastodon has a series of high bumps on the teeth to allow it to eat browse such as twigs. Mammoth remains are found predominantly on the plains, and mastodon predominantly in the eastern woodlands. However, the La Crosse area has remains of both species, suggesting that the vegetation here at the end of the ice age was a mosaic of both grassland and woodland that could support both species.

Photo: Single tooth from: Left-mammoth, right-mastodon. The mammoth tooth is fragile and some of the tooth is broken, exposing the deep tooth enamel. Mammoth lose their teeth as they are worn down, and new ones emerge to replace them.

For more information about mammoths and mastodons visit MVAC’s video at: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/educators/archaeology-terms/?letter=m&term=164813

#archaeology #archeology #mastodons #mammoths

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lindahall · 2 years

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Albert C. Koch – Scientist of the Daay

Albert C. Koch, a German/American naturalist, showman, and entrepreneur, was born May 10, 1804, near Leipzig, Germany.

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sunbentshadows · 2 months

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Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

#information death of the internet etc #legit this has been SO SO helpful #shout out to mastodon infosec server for this one #before 2022 we did not really have the AI-content-farms because. the tech did not exist to the public.#and you can knock back the date if need be #obviously this does not FIX the problem but #me.txt

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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#toot #toots #mastodon #online privacy #internet privacy #right to privacy #medical privacy #privacy

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cmerrill2 · 7 months

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Speculative Creative Nonfiction

Nonfiction is not made up, right? But I wanted to wander off into my imagination while writing this essay and this is the result, just published in Sentience Literary Journal: “Mastodons, Mammoths, and Morula” by Cheryl Merrill

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#African elephants #mammoths #mastodons #Nature writing

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pauldelancey · 8 months

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World Marbles Challenge

Akeem “The Thumb” Hassan, this year’s favorite Yes indeed, sports fans, the 47th World Marbles Challenge starts tomorrow in Kotzebue, Alaska and ends in Durban, South Africa. This course shall be quite the challenge for the globe’s top marbleists with: freezing blizzards, snow blindness, sheer icy cliffs, thirst, starvation, encounters with the Yukon’s very few remaining mastodons, rapids, rush…

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#Alaska #blizzards #Civil War #diseases #gangs #hippos #marbels #mastodons #New York Times #pandemics #poisonous snakes #rapids #South Africa #sports #terrorists #Walmart

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f-identity · 1 year

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[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @[email protected] dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

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netscapenavigator-official · 9 months

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If Staff ever implements the editing method from Mastodon, we'd be fucked.

Currently, on Tumblr, if you edit a post, all the former reblogs stay exactly the same.

On Mastodon, editing a post changes all the boosts and simply notifies the people who interacted with the post prior to the edit.

Now, can you imagine that on Tumblr?

Surely giving the OP the ability to edit their post after hundreds of thousands of people have reblogged it would be a perfectly balanced feature that I'm sure the Tumblr' userbase has never abused before.

#rambles #tech #tumblr #post editing #mastodon #activitypub #staff #edit #editing

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antiqueanimals · 2 years

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Smilodon and mastodons from the Album of Prehistoric Animals, 1974, illustrated by Rod Ruth.

#prehistoric #prehistoric mammals #smilodon #mastodons #Rod Ruth

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unpretty · 6 months

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the thing about tumblr is that it's always had rss feeds, so it's always been possible to follow someone without actually having a tumblr account (even after they started adding login walls). if you are looking for new places to post, please consider whether it's possible for people to follow and view your posts there without having an account. i love you guys but there are artists whose work i haven't seen in years because i'm not making a ZuckMuskDotOrg account just to see what they're up to.

#original #mastodon and all forks have rss #i think cohost has rss and also dreamwidth #wordpress obviously has rss #even if it's not your main thing consider setting up a crossposter at least

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covidnovelaesthetic · 1 year

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How do you do? As well as you know, the usual being plagued by antlered worms and attacking earth-eaters. Hopefully wizards and bats and lizards and rats can compete with that, with Carnival Jack. Though the Architect seems friendly, which is probably just swell. Beyond the Architect are the cave spiders, crawling around one another within a great cylindrical star-cavern and paying no heed to the small crab between their feet holding one Dreamsphere (ours). Upon the outside surface of the cylinder trods a great elk, and between the icy-white and ivy-draped peaks of its antlers lies a great network of cobwebs, of silken strings, upon which dances a great Remipede, playing out the Song of Reality on the strings of the great harp, which hums in the ear of the narwhal-squids which pull the chariot of the Hand of Time around the circumference of the great celestial Clown Clock, which crawls with ogres and goblins and spiders and trolls and dragons and squid and emerald crabs and hermit crabs and octopus-belugas, all hanging about in the tide-pools between its infinitely-stretching axial spars. All of this is in turn imagined by the velociraptor-monkey with a spear which lives in a tree and hides from snapping packs of weevil-aardvark-aardwolf-wolves, cougar crabs and angry lobster-tigers snapping for a denied dinner. In a hidden compartment in its tree, the velociraptor-monkey protects a hidden tankful of Architects on a reef which hold Memories in time via Dreamspheres. Butterflies and moths made of jewels flit lazily above it all, more heedless than the vultures and bustards and buzzards which are starting to crowd in the sky and blot out the sun and descend on the land to relieve its remaining carnage that following day. “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, Yesterday Holds Memories In Time,” screams Carnival Jack’s enabler with a great cruel sneer and pulls out your heart and demands that you yield. His mouth makes impossible sounds that seem almost like words. You cannot decrypt it, no matter how you scream. We all emerge as particles of unfiltered light from the eyes at the tips of an anemone’s waving fronds.

The Clockmakers are coming.

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lindahall · 2 years

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Charles Willson Peale – Scientist of the Day

Charles Willson Peale, an American painter and museum owner, was born in Maryland on Apr. 15, 1741, and moved to Philadelphia in 1776.