#mammuthus

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...

reconstrcuct the locality during the ice age with surprising precision. This place was once a sinkhole, fed by a geothermal spring, making it a inviting hot tub for many animals. Unfortunately large animals that waded deeper into the warm water would have faced a sudden...

drop, and for creatures, like mammoth, that are bad climbers this proofed fatal. Over 50 Columbian mammoth fell victim to this trap, most of them young males, without herd and inexperienced. other animals fell victim to this trap as well and even more remains were probably...

washed in. The site proofed to be so productive that the initially planned subdivision was abandoned upon discovery of the bones, with a museum being put here instead. We had the luck to have the preparator of the site on stream to guide us through the inner workings of the locality. Which also enabled us also to put in one of the specimens from here, a headless subadult mammoth (called Murry) which offered the possibility to speculate how it might have lost its skull. Unfortunately no birds left diagnostic remains behind but many small...

critters were preserved here, most of them living species and unlikely to appear here during autumn so discord member Dynamo only had to put together the mammals for the size chart.

genus: mammuthus

a large proboscidean with curled tusks and a woolly coat, it can sacrifice its lp to its allies and slowly recover it with the lp recovery ability, but it will be frail during that process

Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, by Zdenek Burian

Well, not exactly. This was supposed to be the imperial mammoth (Mammuthus imperator) when it was painted, but since then imperator has become synonymized with columbi, so you have one warm-weather North American mammoth and one cold-weather North American mammoth.