#iceage

🦌🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday — Megaloceros giganteus, the Irish elk, which I was able to visit in June. Specimen USNM 7051 is masterfully mounted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The mount features a massive steel armature to support its nearly 3.4–3.6 meter antler spread. Studies show Megaloceros dropped and regrew its antlers each year. . . #pleistocene #megalocerosgiganteus #paleontology #iceage #giantdeer #citizenscience Skull mount photos credit: NMNH/Loren Ybarrondo

An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. On display at Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren. #archaeology

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍄🪨 Researchers at the University of #Michigan pulled #water from gas wells deep under the #GreatLakes and found a dense #ecosystem. The water has remained #underground since the #IceAge more than 11,000 years ago. The isolated #environment contains hundreds of fungal species alongside tiny #worms and #tardigrades. 👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/rock-eating-fungi-great-lakes/ #fungi #microrganisms #ecology #science #groundwater #biodiversity #carbon #carboncycle #soil #biology #extremophiles

#GoodNight and #TZAG everyone I've just popped in the second Shaun the Sheep movie in the player 💿... Farmagaddon. And... I got the "need" to go upstairs... And... Grab my Ice Age collection... 😊 Unfortunately, I don't have them all on Blu-ray yet... Before the divorce, we had a 3D TV. After the divorce, my ex had one... 😔 Unfortunately, these TVs are not being made anymore, it seems... So I guess the special 3D-editions of the movies may not be enjoyed anymore... And the last movie, I got from my aunt, so that's a DVD too (as I would have gotten the Blu-ray, for the better quality...). Still, I *think* there may be an Ice Age movie 🎬 fest coming up soon, after the Shaun movies have been seen... #IceAge #PhysicalCollection #DVD #Collection #BluRay #ShareYourMovies

27,000-year-old mammoth bones provide rare evidence of human activity in Bavaria Archaeologists in southeastern Germany have identified evidence of human activity on the remains of a woolly mammoth dating to roughly 27,000 to 25,000 years ago, a period when signs of human presence in the region are scarce. The find offers a rare glimpse of life in Bavaria during the final stages of the Gravettian culture... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/27000-year-old-mammoth-bones-in-bavaria/ @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #iceage #mammoth

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins Iceage: 🎵 Star #Iceage https://iceage.bandcamp.com/track/star https://open.spotify.com/track/3PdE19PCcon8iVW9KXtRWl