Comments on: Prehistoric Creature Seen, Photographed in Alberta

By: Fhqwhgads

Fhqwhgads — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:30:25 +0000

Oh, my protoplasmal ancestor!

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:47:00 +0000

Speaking of possums...

By: cryptokellie

cryptokellie — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:29:01 +0000

Well actually, the most prehistoric mammal in North America is the opossum.
They evolved in South America during the late Cretaceous and migrated north arriving
here in the late Pliocene around 1 million years ago. The Musk Ox migrated to North America during the Pleistocene less than 200,000 years ago. Of course the Musk Ox is far more exciting than the opossum-which are in my backyard from time to time. They will come up to the deck door and look inside too.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:16:58 +0000

I also equate this kind of thing with chimeras, and creatures that people used to describe–you know, head like a bird, tail of a lion, etc.?

I think people, when they don’t know what they’re looking at try to relate it to something they do know…even if they take it apart and identify the limbs with existing animals they are familiar with.

interesting though

By: Desertdweller

Desertdweller — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:34:14 +0000

They are our contemporaries. Like bison, and pronghorns. Ice-age survivors, all of us.

Despite the corny high-school textbook illustrations of “The Ascent of Man”, we have been around a long, long time.

Will cloned mammoths exhibit an instinctive fear of man?

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:31:13 +0000

They are kind of giant goats cause they are related to goats and sheep and not cattle.

In Northern Canada, the goats stare at YOU

Majestic animals.

By: Storfot

Storfot — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:13:31 +0000

We have them in Scandinavia as well.
However, they aren’t native to the Scandinavian peninsula.
Native to Hudson bay area, Canada and Greenland.

They are kind of giant goats cause they are related to goats and sheep and not cattle.

By: Shane Milligan via Facebook

Shane Milligan via Facebook — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:35:14 +0000

Wow.

By: PoeticsOfBigfoot

PoeticsOfBigfoot — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:17:56 +0000

I’ve been lucky enough to experience these animals in the far north- much, much farther north than Alberta. That’s crazy! They truly are the most prehistoric mammals you can find in North America.