tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post3658492976493763536..comments2024-01-08T00:40:50.918-08:00Comments on The Dragon's Tales: Just In: Reports of Gompotheres Ghost Lineage...from 13,500 years ago?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-14988093888585617272009-12-18T06:54:30.261-08:002009-12-18T06:54:30.261-08:00On addition note, the controversial Monte Verde si...On addition note, the controversial Monte Verde site in Chile is rife with the bones of Cuverionus, in fact it was the association of these bones (and possibly other gomphothere-derived tools and the like) that help make the site so controversial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-11898213863018896562009-12-18T06:52:52.857-08:002009-12-18T06:52:52.857-08:00Though Mammut isn't really a gomphothere, its ...Though Mammut isn't really a gomphothere, its a mastodon. Somewhere between "true elephants" and gomphotheres in the elephant family tree. But all the same, it was showing that the New World was home to some really freaky proboscideans that had died out long before in Eurasia and Africa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-40048691766028365092009-12-18T00:45:53.736-08:002009-12-18T00:45:53.736-08:00Agreed Anonymous...
*Cuvieronius* and both specie...Agreed Anonymous...<br /><br />*Cuvieronius* and both species of *Stegomastodon* were present all the way up until 10,000 to 9,000 ya. *Stegomastodon* may have survived as recently as 1,600 ya. <br /><br />There is also *Mammut*, that weird off which may have been around as recently as 4,000 years ago.<br /><br />If this something along the lines of *Rhynchotherium*,though... "squee"!Raymondnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-42494372400525011062009-12-17T19:25:54.833-08:002009-12-17T19:25:54.833-08:00We already have Cuvieronus, a Late Pleistocene gom...We already have Cuvieronus, a Late Pleistocene gomphothere from South America and the southernmost regions of North America (Florida, Mexico, etc.). Gomphotheres interacting with humans isn't that out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com