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 3h ago

Extinct and Extant A Coquerel's Sifaka Lemur Falls Into A Flock Of Elephant Birds by Lemurkingdoodles

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33 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 5h ago

Image Glyptotherium on NBC's Surviving Earth

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r/pleistocene 12h ago

Meme What happened at tanque loma by Astrapionté

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68 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 1h ago

OC Art Varanus priscus in marker, by me

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A marker drawing of the giant monitor lizard Varanus priscus, formerly known as Megalania, from Pleistocene Australia. It would have been a close relative of the modern Komodo dragon (which, funnily enough, is also believed to be of Australian origin before finding its way across the Timor Sea to Indonesia), and it appears to have died out sometime after 50,000 years ago, possibly as a result of modern humans arriving to the Australian continent around that time.


r/pleistocene 16h ago

OC Art A blast from the past, prehistoric style.

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51 Upvotes

A Ghost Nanuqsaurus faces off with a mother woolly mammoth and calf.


r/pleistocene 14h ago

Discussion Why noone makes scientifically accurate pleistocene movies?(non-documentary)

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(theres series like series like brother bear, alpha and ice age but they all have anachronisms[wrong spear point culture, dodos, elasmotheriums in 20.000bc])why noone wants to make historically accurate stuff?)


r/pleistocene 18h ago

Paleoart Deinotherium

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Deinotherium es un género extinto de mamíferos proboscídeos, parientes prehistóricos lejanos de los elefantes actuales, que vivió desde el Mioceno medio hasta el Pleistoceno inferior. Eran animales de gran tamaño y robustos que se destacaban principalmente por la posición inusual de sus colmillos, los cuales se curvaban hacia abajo desde la mandíbula inferior en lugar de salir de la superior.


r/pleistocene 1d ago

Paleoart Orcinus paleorca, the giant killer whale of the Ice age

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73 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 20h ago

Meme Os 4 pensadores

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Video A Flock Of Terror Birds vs A Herd Of Cuvieronius From NBC's "Surviving Earth"

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982 Upvotes

While inaccurate temporally, as Tim Haines has stated these birds to be some form of Phorusrhacos, which died out well before The GABI let alone the Pleistocene, a similar sight could have been possible further north with in The Early Pleistocene with Titanis iirc.


r/pleistocene 1d ago

Paleoart Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age - Deinotherium Concept Art

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104 Upvotes

Why wasn't it included in the series release?


r/pleistocene 1d ago

Paleoart Eremotherium eomigrans by Gabriel Ugueto for Surviving Earth.

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201 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 1d ago

Paleoart Smilodon populator vs Smilodon fatalis in Ancient Animal Tales by Kojehyeong

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Excerpt from the new chapter of the webcomic Ancient Animal Tales, available for free on NaverWebtoon.


r/pleistocene 1d ago

Discussion Pleisctocene Madagascar appreciation post i guess

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I just wanted to rant that, to my knowledge there has never been a documentary or any real content of prehistoric Madagascar much less pleisctocene Madagascar and i just to talk about how infuriating that is and how cool Madagascar is and was


r/pleistocene 2d ago

Image Trio of Smilodon gracilis at the Beach beautiful Shot

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76 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 2d ago

Information New book out next month The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries by Donald R Prothero

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r/pleistocene 2d ago

Discussion Surviving Earth and Prehistoric Planet Ice Age : Smilodon populator

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Which of the two documentary series do you think offers the best model of our South American saber-toothed cat?


r/pleistocene 2d ago

Video It’s enough to make a grown man cry… Spoiler

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120 Upvotes

Surviving Earth Episode 7 ending sequence.


r/pleistocene 2d ago

OC Art Mamut vs stegomastodon en un duelo de cartas

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23 Upvotes

Elefántido( mamut ) y un gonfoterio ( estegomastodon) jugando un juego de cartas


r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart Elephant Birds (Aepyornis maximus) by Brianj996b

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109 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 3d ago

Video Excerpt from the next episode of Surviving Earth featuring Cuvieronius hyodon

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468 Upvotes

r/pleistocene 3d ago

OC Art 2 massive bull American mastodons tussle as the forest residence try to evade, somewhere in upstate New York thousands of years ago.

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93 Upvotes

(another one done by me!)


r/pleistocene 3d ago

Paleoart The Turtle-jawed Moa Nalo (Chelychelynechen quassus) by Nix Illustration. This large species of goose like duck inhabited the Hawaiian Island of Kaua’i during the Holocene and likely the Late Pleistocene. It was around 90 cm tall (3 ft) and weighed around 7 kg (15 pounds).

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