Author: Lisa Verhagen

A Glimpse into the Past The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was a defining animal of the Ice Age landscape. During the Mammoth Steppe of the Late Pleistocene, approximately 100,000 to 20,000 years ago, these impressive herbivores roamed vast regions of Europe and Asia. Their fossil remains are almost always found alongside those of woolly mammoths, […]

An Extraordinary Find from Arctic Siberia The completely preserved skull of a cave or steppe lion was discovered in the permanently frozen ground – the permafrost – of Arctic Siberia (Yakutia, Russia). This fossil is one of the rarest finds from the Ice Age and offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of this long-extinct […]

HERE STANDS A LIFE-SIZED MODEL OF THE SOUTHERN MAMMOTH, THIS IS THE LARGEST MAMMOTH OF ALL TIME! Mammuthus meridionalis (NESTI, 1825). The iconic Ice Age animal, the woolly mammoth, has already been reconstructed in many life-sized models, which can be seen in various museums and parks across Europe, Asia, and North America. This has made […]

Composite skeleton of the wild horse. Constructed from numerous different bones from various animals, recovered from the North Sea seabed. During the Pleistocene, especially around 40,000–50,000 years ago, wild horses were abundant on the vast plains of the dry North Sea between the British Isles and the Netherlands. They were likely the most common large […]

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centred around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. In nature there is a great diversity of life which increases the chance of survival. Agriculture, as it is today, has many harmful consequences such as the enormous use of fossil […]