A poster featuring some noteworthy victims of the the La Brea Tar Pits. Mammoths, ground sloths, dire wolves and other animals from the last glaciar period that were unfortunate enough to get stuck in the tar.

sulc.us/brea

Design by Greco Westermann

forest falls; mammoth lakes, california

instagram

“ ” “ ” & “ ” ☠️

THE NORTHMAN - “STRIKE, BROTHER”♪

INSTAGRAM

Mammoth, California

Il y a 3 ans, j'ai découvert la céramique au CELO (Centre communautaire Côte-des-Neiges - Montréal), d'abord en cours avec Hélène, ma professeure, puis en atelier libre. Sur ces 3 ans, voici les 10 travaux que je préfère. Pour en voir un peu plus, c’est sur cette page.
***********
Three years ago, I discovered ceramics at the CELO (Côte-des-Neiges Community Center - Montreal), first in class with Hélène, my teacher, then in a free workshop. Over these 3 years, here are the 10 works that I prefer. If you want to see more of them, it’s in this page.

#Inktober #Day18, ‘Filthy’

Usually how myself and surroundings can be described during and after an art-attack (especially with the current ink obsession), so with today’s keyword I thought I’d get in there first and deliberately slap some ink on the part of my hand which usually gets covered accidentally (and fingers). Thought the result looked reasonably mammoth-esque, so filled in some features. Certainly an original piece, though the concept has been around for thousands of years. Somewhat cathartic.

#Inktober2017 #filthy #WindsorAndNewton #ink #black #DalerRowney #Heavyweight200gsm #smudge #print #hand #inkblot #abstract #mammoth #drawing #illustration

Maqueta de mamut, escala 1/5 per Fundació La Caixa
#fundaciolacaixa #cosmocaixa #cosmocaixabarcelona #mamut #mammoth #mammuthus #mammuthusprimigenius #mammoth
(at Catalonia, Spain)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdtuML-LiN5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mammoth model
Exhibition “Mamut” Fundació “la Caixa”-CaixaForum Sevilla.
#caixaforum #mamut #mammuth #mammoth #mammouth #elefant
https://www.instagram.com/p/CW6jVBWrmQn/?utm_medium=tumblr

Small scale mammoth model
#mammoth #mamut# #mammouth #naturalhistorymuseum #paleoart #animalsculpture #naturmuseum #naturhistorischesmuseum #naturhistoriska #urelefanten
https://www.instagram.com/p/CW6grTtLWBh/?utm_medium=tumblr

Fauna da  Era do Gelo do norte da Espanha.

Ice Age fauna of Northern Spain.

Mauricio Anton, 2008.

Summer Glau

Horror Cred: Mammoth

coolartefact:

Mammoth ivory portrait of woman with sagging face, Upper Paleolithic [528 x 980]

Source:http://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/images/31116/female%20portrait%20dolni%20vestonice%20aaa_big.jpg

4/Fated Four

Mammoth bones used in the construction of a house at Mezchyrich (Ukraine)

Traffic in los santos

This is my mammoth tattoo for those who were curious about it in my previous  post. 

The Cave Of The Hundred Mammoths

The Rouffignac cave is a cave located in the department of Dordogne in France and is also known as the cave of the hundred mammoths thanks to its 255  cave paintings of which 62% represent a mammoth. The cave itself is big, it has over 10 kilometers of underground passageways and shafts that lead to even deeper levels not fully explored. In total, 12 kilometers of the cave has been explored and visitors can take a tour on a train that will take them about 2km far into the cave.

Earliest mentions of the cave dates back to 1575 when writer and painter François Belleforest described strange paintings and footprints of various animals in his work ‘Cosmographie Universelle’. During the 19th century, the cave became a tourist attraction because of the paintings but nobody yet realised that these paintings were actually made during the paleolithic era.

It wasn’t until the 1950’s when several researchers (Romain Robert, Louis-René Nougier, Charles and Louis Plassard) entered the cave and noticed that the paintings inside were of great historical value. In 1957 the cave became a listed site and it was finally confirmed that the art inside, is in fact prehistoric in nature and thus of incredible archeological value.

The art inside the cave is not the oldest art found in Europe. The art of Rouffignac is dated back to about 13,000 years ago from the Magdalenian culture, in comparison the art of Chauvet cave is about 30,000 years old. What is quite fascinating is the fact that 62% of all the paintings, 158 in total, represent a mammoth. There are 29 depictions of bison, 16 of a horse, 12 of an ibex, 11 of a rhino, 6 of a snake, 4 of a human, 1 of a bear and 14 abstract paintings.

Some of the art has been made in quite difficult positions inside the cave, it’s amazing to think that humans were able to explore this cave 13,000 years ago and make these pieces of art. There must have been a reason behind all of this art because no one would enter this cave that deeply to create art in pitch black and dangerous surroundings in prehistoric times, even with all of our current gear and knowledge humans wouldn’t even do this for fun in the 21st century. The possible spiritual meaning behind cave art still remains a mystery yet an incredibly fascinating topic to explore.

Why is there such an abundance of mammoth cave art in Rouffignac? We actually have no idea why. Perhaps our ancestors viewed the woolly mammoth as a particularly sacred animal, maybe their spiritual beliefs were based on the spirit of the mammoth. These are just wild guesses because in truth, it is impossible to find any archeological evidence inside this cave that explains the reason why there are so many depictions of a mammoth. One thing that is certain is that the mammoth continues to fascinate human beings until this very day, I myself got a tattoo of a woolly mammoth based on art found inside this cave.

Here are images of:
Rouffignac cave art

Rediscovery Of The Woolly Mammoth

The woolly mammoth is a species of mammoth that unfortunately went extinct around 10,000 years ago, this animal is also seen as the symbol of ancient European ice ages. Small populations of woolly mammoths continued to survive on the Wrangel Island in Russia until as recent as 4,000 years ago. There were still some mammoths left when the great pyramids in Egypt were being built.

Even though all mammoth species are now extinct, their legacy continues to live on in the minds of modern humans. Their bones and tusks are still being used until this very day. The indigenous cultures of Siberia and North America still contain myths explaining the presence of mammoths and other extinct megafauna. Whether these myths are based on ancient memories of ancestors who have witnessed these animals or based on found remains throughout the centuries is not fully known.

Indigenous Siberian people believe that the remains of woolly mammoths were once part of an animal able to crawl underground, also an explanation why earthquakes happen. If a mammoth was unfortunate enough to crawl upwards and reach the surface, it would die. This is one of the legends surrounding the woolly mammoth that has survived until this day. Indigenous north American people had similar stories of mammoths living underground. Another native-American legend, of the Inupiat people, suggests that mammoths were primordial giants.

Long before the western world started to seriously study ancient extinct species, parts of mammoth remains, such as their tusks, were imported into Europe. This precious ivory is still worth an incredible amount of money but back in the medieval ages, no one thought this ivory came from an extinct species. Europeans had several explanations for woolly mammoth remains: they probably belonged to an escaped herd of elephants during the Roman republic, they were the actual war elephants of Hannibal, they are simply just elephants who wandered a bit too far north or they are the victims of the great flood described in the biblical book genesis.

The first person who recognized that these remains were actually part of an extinct species of elephant was Hans Sloane back in 1728. Sloane published a paper in that year what can now be considered as the first scientific research on the woolly mammoth. 10 years later another researcher, Johann Philipp Breyne, also researched mammoth fossils and came to the conclusion that they are a species of elephant. Both men were however clueless on how these ‘elephants’ got in Siberia and proposed the theory that they were victims of Noah’s flood.

It took until 1796 when these mysterious 'elephant’ remains from Siberia were finally identified as a completely different species, not modern elephants as thought before but an entirely new species. French anatomist Georges Cuvier was the first to identify the woolly mammoth as a mammoth species and the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach gave the species its official scientific name 'Mammuthus Primigenius’.

In 1806, a Russian botanist Mikhail Adams journeyed towards northeastern Siberia to witness the most complete woolly mammoth skeleton found back in 1799. (the most complete of that time period, more complete and intact mammoth remains have been found since 1799) It was the first time that the entire skeleton, without the tusks, was found. The remains were brought back to St Petersburg and an attempt was made to reassemble the skeleton. There was however one problem, no one knew how the tusks would have looked like so the tusks were mounted on the wrong sides so that the curves went outwards instead of inwards. This mistake wasn’t corrected until 1899 and is still visible in the famous sketch of Adams mammoth.

Nowadays multiple subspecies of mammoth have been discovered, the woolly mammoth is just one of the mammoth species that once roamed the earth. It took until 2005 before researchers were finally able to complete a full mitochondrial genome profile of the woolly mammoth. 10 years later in 2015 it was confirmed that the closest living relative of the woolly mammoth is the asian elephant. If an attempt is ever made to bring back the woolly mammoth, our modern asian elephants can help us out. But the subject of bringing the woolly mammoth back to life again is a topic for another post.

Here are images of:
Woolly mammoth by Mihin89,
The Adams mammoth right now, with the tusks in the correct position,
Sketch of Adams mammoth with the tusks on the wrong side,

Way to go, ground sloth, it’s not like he was using that tree as cover or anything.

Twitter|Facebook|Livestream|DeviantArt

[c] plushieaddict

Being back in the mountains was awesome! 1 day was not enough though :( photo by: @mrbenbrown

In case you haven’t heard, a 10,000 year old mammoth carcass found in Russia reportedly contains mammoth blood. After this discovery was made, the internet was rampant with declarations that now we would be able to “clone” a mammoth and bring this long extinct species back to life. How far-fetched is this? Well, that statement may as well be out in space. DNA begins to break down at death, so paleogeneticists would likely draw only scraps of genetic material from the mammoth. Then they would try to place those scraps into a DNA patchwork of the best approximation of what we think a mammoth’s genome would be like.

The result would not be a resurrected woolly mammoth genome; it would be modern science’s best approximation of mammothness.

That’s to say nothing of actually creating a baby mammoth. Researchers could try to manipulate the sex cells of modern Asian elephants—the closest living relatives to mammoths—to get a mother Asian elephant to carry a mammoth baby, or genetic engineers could alter the genome of elephants bit by bit until they reverse-engineered a living hypothesis of a woolly mammoth.

But researchers are not even close to those experimental steps.

Photograph courtesy of Semyon Grigoryev, Northeastern Federal University/AFP/Getty Images, and National Geographic.

Our winter-proof color-changing Dragon Scale faux fur Cosmic Hoodies are game changers for mountain sports enthusiasts and urban fashionistas alike ❄
.
#StardustLove #dragonscale #fauxfur #hoodies #urbanstyle #urbanfashion #streetfashion #streetstyle #fashionista #mountainsports #ski #snowboard #snowmobile #breckenridge #heavenly #laketahoe #aspen #vail #mammoth #bigbear #jacksonhole #alta #whistler #snowbird #alyeska #revelstoke #telluride #grandtarghee #parkcity #sundance (at Mammoth Mountain)

So a few nights ago I had a dream set in the Ice Age universe where our main characters met a big herd of mammoths (that called themselves a tribe for some reason) led by a laid-back experienced soldier of a mammoth who was even bigger and taller than Manny. Also he had several daughters, the youngest of whom befriended young Peaches 

So of course I had to draw this out into actual OC’s. The black mammoth in the center is the leader Gabe, the grey mammoth on the right is his wife Lucy. From left to right are his daughters Lennon, Olivia, Julia, and Lizabeth. Only Julia is Gabe and Lucy’s biological daughter, all the rest are adopted 

Also I really dreamed up a better idea for a movie than all of Ice Age 4-6 combined 

Erin Comstock riding in Mammoth