Early mammals

Uintatherium ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct browsing mammal. There are two recognized species: U. anceps from North America during the Early to Middle Eocene and U. insperatus from China during the Middle to Late Eocene. 13 ft). About 5 - 6 ft tall and weighing up to 2 tonnes, it was similar to today's rhinoceros.

The Neogene* encompasses two epochs, beginning with the Miocene (23.03-5.33 Mya) and followed by the Pliocene (5.33-2.58 Mya). The Pleistocene (also known as the "Ice age"), occurred 2.58 mya and ended 11.7000 years ago. It is followed by the current epoch, the Holocene, beginning eleven thousand five hundred years ago are now (2022). Both the Pleistocene and the Holocene are

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

First and second images are epic painting at the Ice Age Fossils Park in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Both by the very talented artist @BZaiken. The first depicts a scene that happens during the Pleistocene Epoch about 13,000 years ago, a traveling mixed herd of Mammuthus columbi

Since we've already looked at everything that's more important, let us now turn to the Cenozoic mammals of the wonderful Private Lives of Animals book on extinct beasties. And where better to begin than with a ground sloth with hair so wonderfully painted, you'll want to reach through the screen and run your fingers through it? (Just watch out for fleas and dandruff.) As you will already be well aware, it's obligatory to restore Megatherium standing upright against a tree, with its hands…

A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves.

Dinosaurs and Contemporaries