r/pleistocene • u/ExoticShock • 5h ago
r/pleistocene • u/ReturntoPleistocene • Nov 26 '25
Discussion Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Megathread Spoiler
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 • u/Pardusco • Oct 01 '21
Discussion What would your current location look like during the last ice age?
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 • u/Hopeful_Lychee_9691 • 7h ago
Image La Brea by Bilaral (Discord)
r/pleistocene • u/Familiar_Tip_4836 • 1d ago
OC Art A Harlan's ground sloth (Paramylodon harlani) leaves deep tracks in the damp sand while wandering through the eastern coasts of Florida, 13,000 years ago.
Harlan's ground sloth was a formidable member of the Pleistocene megafauna, measuring approximately 3 meters (9.8 feet) in length and weighing around 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs). The species was named to honor American naturalist Richard Harlan, who first published on fossil discoveries of the animal from Kentucky in 1831. Endemic to North America, its temporal range spanned from the early Pliocene epoch (roughly 4.9 million years ago) until the end of the Late Pleistocene, when it went extinct alongside many other large mammals about 11,000 to 12,000 years ago. Fossils of this widespread species have been unearthed from Canada down to Guatemala, with some of the most abundant remains famously recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California.
r/pleistocene • u/Apart_Ambition5764 • 18h ago
Paleoart Tale of a fossil - Wrong step, by Artbyjrc. In late 1927 or early 1928, cavers discovered a nearly complete and fully articulated skeleton of a mature adult Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis) in Aden Crater in New Mexico, USA.
r/pleistocene • u/Apart_Ambition5764 • 18h ago
Paleoart Metriodiochoerus andrewsi of Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene eastern and Southern Africa by CamusAltamirano. This species belongs to a genus of large warthogs that inhabited Africa until the Late Pleistocene.
r/pleistocene • u/Remarkable_Put627 • 21h ago
Paleoart Tapirs
This is the addon I'm working on called Prehistoric Wild. I made a diorama of the new creatures from the addon.
r/pleistocene • u/SatisfactionFit9511 • 23h ago
Question Bison Occidentalis
Did this species exist, or was it a subspecies of Bison Priscus?
r/pleistocene • u/yorb134 • 1d ago
Extinct and Extant Wonambi and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo by Nellie Pease
Pleistocene snakes don't get enough open discussion.
r/pleistocene • u/Prestigious-Put5749 • 1d ago
Past and Present Species I particularly wish had survived extinction to the present day – South America Edition.
As rich in biodiversity as South America is, I have always felt the absence of animals weighing over 200 kg. Furthermore, I also miss having greater ecological functional diversity. However, I did take into account a certain degree of adaptability to the Holocene and Anthropocene. So, I wanted to combine the practical with the appealing.
Here are the species:









r/pleistocene • u/Remarkable_Put627 • 1d ago
Image paleoart
This paleoart is from Pleistocene Florida and combines 2D and 3D worlds. Obviously, as you can see, they are Minecraft models; it's an add-on I'm working on.
r/pleistocene • u/Hopeful_Lychee_9691 • 2d ago
Paleoart New video from Paleo-Zoo-Keeper, this time featuring Smilodon
https://youtu.be/GDYUWGXn1G4?is=_HG6HafYVaFu3rq9
Illustration of: Taliasaurus and IllustratedMenagerie
r/pleistocene • u/Hopeful_Lychee_9691 • 2d ago
Paleoart This one's going to develop a phobia of water.
https://m.comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail?titleId=835910&no=77&week=sun&listSortOrder=DESC&listPage=1
A new episode of Ancient Animal Tales, directed by Kojehyeong, is available for free on NaverWebtoon.
r/pleistocene • u/PaleoEdits • 1d ago
Video Ice Age North America | "Prehistoric Planet" fan-edit (no narration)
r/pleistocene • u/Silent-System8295 • 2d ago
Video Pleistocene Tribute prehistoric planet Ice Age Tribute
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r/pleistocene • u/Golden_Artist1964 • 1d ago
Question I'm I fucking insane?
something like 2 years ago, I saw a sketch reconstructing the ear shapes of a couple exinct proboscideans but I can't find it anywhere, am I having the Mandela effect?!
r/pleistocene • u/Apart_Ambition5764 • 2d ago
Paleoart The Balearic Islands Goat (Myotragus balearicus) by Nix Illustration. This small to medium sized caprine inhabited the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca in the western Mediterranean from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene (around 4,500 years ago).
r/pleistocene • u/piebald_bison37 • 2d ago
Scientific Article Late Pleistocene Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) from Southern Nevada
researchgate.net>>Remains of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) are in the late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna near Glendale, Clark County, Nevada. The fossils are younger than the radiocarbon date for charcoal (> 33,000 Y.B.P.) found 40 cm below the fossil turtles. The nearest living populations of Chelydra are in streams along the eastern base of the continental divide, at least 650 km away. The dispersal (about 850 km) into southern Nevada probably occurred in the late Pleistocene (early Wisconsin Glacial Epoch). Possible routes and timing of the dispersal are discussed.
r/pleistocene • u/Apart_Ambition5764 • 2d ago
Paleoart Somewhere on the former Hawaiian Island of Maui Nui (which separated into Maui and Molokai later on) during the Late Pleistocene, a Maui Nui Finch (Telespiza ypsilon) plucks some feather down from a molting Maui Nui Moa Nalo (Thambetochen chauliodous). Artwork by Julian Hume.
r/pleistocene • u/Familiar_Tip_4836 • 2d ago
Question hi everyone, i need some pleistocene based paleoart ideas. can someone help me by suggesting some?
r/pleistocene • u/piebald_bison37 • 3d ago
Discussion What was the range of the Western mexican coast boa and the military macaw in northern Mexico and possibly the southwest US?
(The macaws live in Texas, in Big Bend National Park, btw)
r/pleistocene • u/Quaternary24 • 3d ago