#paleo stuff

[mammoth-clangen]

mmm my initial assumption was that the rest of their group got wiped out by early humans, but “Ice Fangs” sounds like another kind of sabertoothed cat. So I’m hopping onto the scimitar theory bandwagon 👀

Ohoho, interesting ideas anon 👀

I will say that at this point, humans had been in the Americas for at the very least a few thousand years! The Clovis Culture was around in the current timeline and there were already people before then c:

Unrelated but does anyone else find it extremely silly that:

Scimitar toothed= big sword= short toothed Homotherium

Dirk toothed= short dagger = long toothed smilodon?

Saber is used as a colloquial term for both but it drives me a bit bonkers that the sword lengths are inversed

[forvirresky]

little thing i made for my dad and some of his buddies a while back.

[troythecatfish]

[fearsomegaybeast]

SHUT UP NEW ARGIE DINOSAUR DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pinkdaruma]

new drawing!!!

now I really want to put this on a shirt...

[videoviolence]

everytime I see depictions of a mosasaurus in art with crocodilian like dorsal crests down their back I lose 3 years off my life . keep it coming and ill soon be dead

[fifteenpoundsofpissedoffbees]

Picture of the little thang as promised 💜

Good condition might have been a generous description

[ba1laur]

some kind of self portrait

[dokelsss]

Troodontid

[kadalsaurus]

pair of baryonyx nuzzling

sketch

[pearlwingdraws]

Shake shake

[mammoth-clangen]

Hi Pav it's Jade! What part of ye olde United States are the kitties currently located? What kind of animals would they frequently encounter that are long gone from our history books?

Oh hello JuniperClan Jade!

I honestly don't have an exact area set in stone. I know some people like to choose a precise location, which is always fun to read especially if you can go "hey I've been there!"

I like to play it fairly loose, so I get a bit of plausible deniable if I want to fudge my background biomes! XD

That being said, I'm a palaeontologist, so legally I have to have done my research or I get Fossilised 💀 so...

These two maps are 1000 years either side of Kindred Of The Mammoth's timeline, so imagine somewhere between the two cx

Images from here

The Kindred are, importantly, at a kind of biome junction. They are living in the mountainous temperate forrest but are not far from the Plains. This would put them in a sort of here-ish?

(Screenshot from Google maps of Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming ish area)

As for what species they cohabit with:

Image source

Lots! -Though not all were present across the whole continent, of course

We've so far seen a Smilodon, Large headed llama (a cria anyway), and marmot, but I plan to also have the namesake mammoths play a rather important role (hint hint, theres a lot of evidence of Homotherium hunting mammoth calves).

There will likely be plenty of cameos from other species as prey, competition, or even predators! Buuuut I don't want to promise big things in case I lose motivation and fail to deliver c':

Note: im not American! 🦘 I'm an Aussie, and my study was Australian megafauna (dromornithids anyone?), so take all this with a pinch of salt cx

[possumnest]

pterosaur doodle page :^)

[stinkart]

POV you are poop.

[fearsomegaybeast]

bought a wooden build-your-own smilodon skeleton from an artisan festival i am the happiest creature alive

[erzvolnes]

I've got Paleo Pines on the brain so I'm drawing Saffron again (: Petting him petting him petting him........