#TatonkaTuesday - Finally getting around to writing a detailed #LostBones Substack about the Melrose Minnesota site - a peat deposit uncovered during MN I-94's construction in 1967.

The largest skull from the site (left) is SMM P67.1.33. At 89.5 cm (35.24 inches) across its horn cores. In life the span could have been nearly 45 inches with its outer sheaths

Blog post coming soon! If you know of other sites - comment!

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New #aDNA on #Equus ovodovi from #Siberia after the Last Glacial Maximum

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005165

New genetic study reveals how modern humans first arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago

A sweeping genetic investigation is reshaping what researchers know about the first journeys of modern humans into Australia and its neighboring lands. Analysis of nearly 2,500 mitochondrial genomes from Indigenous communities across Australia, New Guinea, and the wider Pacific...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/how-modern-humans-first-arrived-in-australia/

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Happy #FossilFriday! 🐴🐘🐪💀 This gorgeous horse mandible comes from Brown County, Minnesota. It was collected by a friend of mine under permit in a state park earlier this year. The bone is deceptively heavy, suggesting it has been partially mineralized. Today, it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for study.

To read more about finds like this, check out my Substack: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/

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🦣🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday: Here is the second of the OG 12 mammoth specimens from New Ulm, MN. Amazingly, split down its length rather than broken into individual plates its chewing surface is missing—but you can see part of the animal’s jaw and tooth root exposed.

Discoveries in New Ulm continue to this day! To read more about the first “dirty dozen” proboscidean finds, check out #LostBones #3 (one of the free articles) on my Substack.

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My spouse and I watched the first episode of the third season of Prehistoric Planet tonight and loved it.

I wish mammoths still existed. They’re like very fuzzy elephants. (Or maybe elephants are like much less hairier mammoths?)

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