Hacker News with Generative AI: Extinct Animals

Mummified Sabretooth Cub Discovered in Siberia (nature.com)
The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia.

Paleontology, Siberia, Pleistocene, Extinct Animals, Arctic

10 points by deeel 19 days ago | 1 comments

Platybelodon (wikipedia.org)
Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker" family Amebelodontidae.

Paleontology, Extinct Animals, Mammals, Evolution

9 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 0 comments

Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth (gizmodo.com)
Millions of years before the dinosaurs came along, there was a creature scurrying around that some people might find far more terrifying than any tyrannosaur. Picture a millipede, but it weighs over 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and its body is the length of a car.

Paleontology, Prehistoric Life, Extinct Animals, Arthropods

7 points by wglb 53 days ago | 5 comments