An Unexpectedly Large Vulture Soared Over South America 13,000 Years Ago todayheadline
The place is called Giant's Path, and it's no coincidence. Remains of local megafauna had already been found in a stream near the city of Canelones, just 45 minutes from Montevideo. Now, an unexpected fossil…
The place is called Giant's Path, and it's no coincidence. Remains of local megafauna had already been found in a stream near the city of Canelones, just 45 minutes from Montevideo. Now, an unexpected fossil…
An Unexpectedly Large Vulture Soared Over South America 13,000 Years Ago todayheadline
The place is called Giant's Path, and it's no coincidence. Remains of local megafauna had already been found in a stream near the city of Canelones, just 45 minutes from Montevideo. Now, an unexpected fossil confirms that the name holds more truth than anyone imagined. A bone fragment led Uruguayan paleontologists to reconstruct the existence of a colossal vulture, larger than the Andean condor — today the most impressive flying bird in the Americas — which would have soared through the skies of southern Pleistocene South America.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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your 🫵 mother is so fat she is scientifically classified as megafauna
hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Really depends on your choice of threshold, and whether it's targeting individuals or the population mean. I've seen descriptions of "Cambrian megafauna" ... so, you know, goalposts move over time.
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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That’s the maximal logo.
They’re not the right megafauna.
What are you doing in there, Dina?
They’re not the right megafauna.
What are you doing in there, Dina?
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Incluso si en el proceso de selección de las áreas marinas protegidas se cubren las áreas importantes para la megafauna marina e incluso si se logra proteger el 30% del océano de forma adecuada, los otros dos tercios de la parte líquida del planeta no estarán protegidos.
¿Y si proteger el 30% del océano no es suficiente? - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Tras analizar los movimientos de 111 especies marinas durante 30 años, un estudio concluye que necesitan el 63% del espacio oceánico para actividades clave como migrar o reproducirse.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Go ahead and wreak it on our whole dumb species while you're at it, frozen megafauna.
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Charismatic megafauna
Charismatic megafauna
Monkeys with a complex
Broken brains!
Charismatic megafauna
Monkeys with a complex
Broken brains!
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Now I'm wondering about the overlap between animals being Charismatic Megafauna and having an emoji.....
Maybe the really interesting group is animals that have an emoji without being considered Charismatic Megafaunae.
Maybe the really interesting group is animals that have an emoji without being considered Charismatic Megafaunae.
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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just googled charismatic megafauna to double check... and alas, it's already taken as a band name
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I find it interesting that Indigenous Americans were also thought to be responsible for the extinction of the megafauna in North America. How much did they these folks were eating?
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New paper co-authored by #ICArEHB researcher Carli Peters in Frontiers in Mammal Science reviews and analyses the ongoing debate on late #Quaternary #megafauna extinctions, one of prehistory’s most discussed ecological events
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#Archaeology #Palaeontology
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#Archaeology #Palaeontology
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Continuing to cherry-pick, it's time I revisit an artist that I haven't listened to in over 5 years.
The album is "Megafauna" by And So I Watch You From Afar.
The album is "Megafauna" by And So I Watch You From Afar.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Oh no! I don't get to be megafauna either! (Is there a word for medium fauna)
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Not if you’re under 100 kg (my partner was distraught to learn that I’m megafauna and she’s not 😅)
hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Affirmation Coyote is charismatic kilofauna.
You are all charismatic megafauna.
Deal with it.
You are all charismatic megafauna.
Deal with it.
hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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You know who really puts the "rizz" in charismatic megafauna?
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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![Barbie crying [edited]: He thinks I'm megafauna? I don't suppress the growth of woody vegetation or stabilize the abundance of smaller animals.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wpdti66qcvzywaum55sucghw/bafkreid33rymnixdez3rme5jbyhrvmymugiq7bqfnyxmz2pjh6tpoicrnq@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna
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Cold Report; Greenland Cave Record; Mosquitos In Iceland; Human-Caused Megafauna Extinction in Australia Debunked; + Scientists Warning Of A Coming Grand Solar Minimum
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Cold Report; Greenland Cave Record; Mosquitos In Iceland; Human-Caused Megafauna Extinction in Australia Debunked; + Scientists Warning Of A Coming Grand Solar Minimum
The COLD TIMES are returning...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia's Megafauna - Smithsonian Magazine
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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More megafauna could fix us
Would be cool if there were still wild buffalo herds roaming about. Might cause some problems out in the middle of the country, but I feel like it'd be worth it at the end of the day.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Yeah, but in Mastadon's Defense, it was the Ice Age and shit was wild for everybody back then. Both megafauna and caveman alike.
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia's Megafauna: Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis @SmithsonianMag #Megafauna #Paleontology #AustralianWildlife #Kangaroo #IndigenousCulture
A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia's Megafauna
Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis
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October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Hello #booksky! 👋
I’m looking for a book recommendation: A book about BIG things. Megafauna, huge mountains, deep oceans, distance between universes in space—if it makes your mind reel about the massiveness of the concepts/things discussed, I’d love to learn about it.
I’m looking for a book recommendation: A book about BIG things. Megafauna, huge mountains, deep oceans, distance between universes in space—if it makes your mind reel about the massiveness of the concepts/things discussed, I’d love to learn about it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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