In some rather exciting "old" news, our partners @NHM_London recently discovered a cave painting of an extinct giant sloth lemur: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/june/only-known-drawing-of-extinct-giant-sloth-lemur-found-in-cave.html #prehistory #lemurs
Only known drawing of extinct giant sloth lemur found in cave

The painting dates to at least 1,000 years ago.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/june/only-known-drawing-of-extinct-giant-sloth-lemur-found-in-cave.html
#Madagascar was once home to an aptly-named range of megafauna, including LEMURS THE SIZE OF GORILLAS, elephant birds (referring to size rather than appendages), and these sloth lemurs.
the largest land animals left today are the Fossa (an elusive cat-like mammal) and the Indri. If you haven't heard of Indri before, treat yourself to a recording of their calls now:
Where did all the large land animals go? Well, unfortunately you can probably guess that one- they disappeared after humans arrived. More detail in the article at the top of this thread!
Veering back to The Natural History Museum, they provide support to SEED in our #biodiversity and #conservation research, including specimen identification.
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