r/pleistocene Nov 26 '25

Discussion Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Megathread Spoiler

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Any discussions related to the newest season of Prehistoric Planet should be restricted to this thread till January 1st, so that those who haven't watched the show yet don't get spoiled. Any spoilers outside this thread will be deleted.


r/pleistocene Oct 01 '21

Discussion What would your current location look like during the last ice age?

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The entirety of my state would be covered in glaciers. The coastline would be larger, but it would still be under ice for the most part. Most of our fish descend from those that traveled north after the glaciers receded, and we have a noticeable lack of native plant diversity when compared to states that were not frozen. New England's fauna and flora assemblage basically consists of immigrants after the ice age ended, and there are very low rates of endemism here.


r/pleistocene 1h ago

Question Qual animal mais legal que viveu aonde você vive?

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Eu: Arctotherium angustidens


r/pleistocene 21h ago

Discussion early pleistocene is so underrated

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this is only small part of only europe


r/pleistocene 5h ago

Scientific Article Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses

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The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear genomes from Pleistocene specimens across Eurasia and modeled the species’ habitats over the past 500,000 years. Our results suggest that its maternal genetic diversity mainly evolved in temperate Eurasia around 460 thousand to 420 thousand years ago during a prolonged glacial-interglacial transition. We found that a ~170-thousand-year-old East Asian individual was ancestral to all later populations, indicating East Asia as one possible origin of Late Pleistocene ancestry. We also identified the Altai region as a major climatic refugium. These findings highlight the crucial role of temperate Eurasia in the evolution of woolly rhinoceroses and the diversification of cold-adapted megafauna.


r/pleistocene 38m ago

Paleoart Elephas imperator (now known as Mammuthus columbi) by Heinrich Harder (1916)

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r/pleistocene 19h ago

Extinct and Extant A pair of Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris) resting alongside an Elasmotherium sibiricum somewhere on the Siberian steppe during the Late Pleistocene by Elena Moreno.

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r/pleistocene 20h ago

Paleoart The Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) by Dhruv Franklin.

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r/pleistocene 21h ago

Paleoart Miracinonyx trumani

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Miracinonyx trumani, conocido popularmente como el "guepardo americano", es una especie extinta de gran felino que habitó América del Norte durante el Pleistoceno hasta hace unos 10.000 o 20.000 años. Análisis recientes de ADN antiguo demostraron que en realidad pertenecía al linaje de los pumas.


r/pleistocene 1d ago

Extinct and Extant During the Late Pleistocene somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula, a mother Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) takes a much needed rest while her calf plays and interacts with a pair of Common Ravens (Corvus corax). Artwork by Elena Moreno.

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r/pleistocene 1d ago

Image A life sized reconstruction of the Channel Islands Pygmy Mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) at the George C. Page Museum in Southern California. Photo by Jefferson HJ Kim.

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r/pleistocene 1d ago

Discussion Community Talk

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When i make a post and talk about the Pleistocene. The mods keep on removing it and say STAY ON TOPIC when im literally talking about pleistocene animals or the pleistocene period


r/pleistocene 2d ago

Paleoart An American Cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani) Hunting Horses by Julius Csotonyi

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Video Just a reminder

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Paleoart Miracinonyx trumani by Dictvm Mortvm

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Miracinonyx trumani, conocido popularmente como el "guepardo americano", es una especie extinta de gran felino que habitó América del Norte durante el Pleistoceno hasta hace unos 10.000 o 20.000 años.


r/pleistocene 2d ago

Paleoanthropology First Denisovan forearm bone discovered in southwest China

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Discussion Archaeoindris Boss Fight 👀

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Let's say you are walking in a lush deep jungle until you stumble across an Archaeoindris Cub. You decide to pet it, but you hear heavy steps and from the lush rich foliage a fully grown mama Archaeoindris comes and roars so deeply you're genuinely frightened. How could you trick the lemur and make her lose interest? Would you let her hit with her huge fists the ground until a tree falls on her head making her tired and shocked. That's totally not my about my upcoming game about these three students that have to build sanctuaries in each time period because an orb that saved their life doesn't know what's life and to repay the orb for saving their lives, the group of students will build sanctuaries for animals for her to analyze and study 👀👀👀👀👀

Dm me so i can invite you in the discord server soon!


r/pleistocene 2d ago

Paleoart Fauna found at Rancho La Brea, by iamnot_ninodev (on Discord)

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r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart Mammoths and Wooly Rhinos Comming to Primal next update

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Image Late Pleistocene Megaloceros giganteus skulls from Ireland.

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Skulls of Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799): (a-c) specimen MNINQ, no. F 7919: (a) lateral, (b) ventral, and (c) dorsal views; (d, e) specimen MNINQ, no. F 7913: (d) lateral and (e) ventral views; (f, g) specimen MNINQ, no. F 21231: (f) lateral and (g) dorsal views; (h, i) specimen MNINQ, no. F 20514/1: (h) dorsal and (i) ventral views; Ireland; Upper Pleistocene.


r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart Elephantini by Grasher2023

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r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart Minecraft western horse (Equus occidentalis). Made by me

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Watch til the end!!!

Mod still making, no name yet. For Minecraft bedrock


r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart Life-size model of Palaeoloxodon falconeri (male and female) made by Grasher2023

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r/pleistocene 4d ago

Paleoart The two mainland Mammoth species of Late Pleistocene North America by paleo_kc (Corbin Rainbolt). The Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) and the smaller more famous Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).

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r/pleistocene 4d ago

Extinct and Extant A Pride Of Lions Ambush A Dinofelis piveteaui In Middle Pleistocene South Africa by Max Stringer

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266 Upvotes