Age: Pliocene

Review: Sivatherium (Bestiari)

Genus: Sivatherium Brand: Bestiary Classification: Mammal Age: Miocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

5 (10 votes)

Review and photos by Bokisaurus

Today, we will review a special figure. I originally intended this as my first 2019 review but got delayed. I wanted to review something a little different than your mass produced toy figures, this was the perfect candidate.

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Review: Ginkgo (Deluxe by CollectA)

Genus: Ginkgo Brand: CollectA Classification: Plant Age: Cretaceous, Eocene, Jurassic, Miocene, Oligocene, Paleocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.9 (9 votes)

What’s a nice prehistoric animal figure without the appropriate background? Right, so let’s have a look at another plant offering by CollectA…
While being a recent species, Ginkgo biloba already existed long before any human had the brilliant idea to develop writing or another kind of reliable method to record dates or stories for generations to come and so setting the foundation for our modern understanding of history and therefore the time before.

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Review: Palaeoloxodon naumanni (Dinotales Series 4 by Kaiyodo)

Genus: Palaeoloxodon Brand: Kaiyodo Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine Scale: 1:120

3.5 (6 votes)

A smaller relative of true Cenozoic giants, this diminutive figure bears itself in a convincingly lifelike manner with plenty of detail.
Earlier this year, Eofauna floored collectors with their release of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, one of the largest known land mammals ever. While the figure is exceptional, it’s not the first time one of the Palaeoloxodon species has been recreated in toy form.

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Review: Straight-Tusked Elephant (Eofauna)

Genus: Palaeoloxodon Brand: Eofauna Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine Scale: 1:35

4.9 (35 votes)

Eofauna once again brings their A-game for this release, with astonishingly rich and lifelike details to a stellar prehistoric elephant model.
I must admit, as a kid, I usually overlooked mammals in favor of dinosaurs, reptiles, etc., but even though my preferences still lie with the scaly (and sometimes feathery) folk, I’d be remiss to ignore the impressive fossil record of the mammals, who have their own fair share of oddities, wonders, and sheer giants.

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Review: Gomphotherium (CollectA)

Genus: Gomphotherium Brand: CollectA Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Miocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.9 (17 votes)

Review and photos by Bokisaurus, edited by Suspsy
The family Proboscidea has a long and very diverse history. The group is perhaps most famous for their trunks and tusks, with some growing to astounding shapes and sizes. Today, only one family from this once mighty group remains: Elephantidae, consisting of only three species.

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Review: Medusa (Bullyland)

Genus: Medusa Brand: Bullyland Classification: Invertebrate Age: Cambrian, Carboniferous, Cretaceous, Devonian, Eocene, Jurassic, Miocene, Oligocene, Ordovician, Paleocene, Permian, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Precambrian, Silurian, Triassic Type: Figurine

4.6 (12 votes)

Summer melts us here since weeks, so time for another wet review….

Today I want you to introduce you to one of those creatures everybody knows, but knows almost nothing about, a jellyfish. Jellyfish are a very very old group of animals, they date back to the famous Ediacarian, more than 600 mya.

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Review: Sivatherium (Prehistoric Creatures by Shapeways)

Genus: Sivatherium Brand: Shapeways Classification: Mammal Age: Miocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4 (2 votes)

Photographs and review by Indohyus, edited by Suspsy
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a review, but now that I have a brief break from things, I have time to write a new one. And I’ll start with 3D printing. I adore 3D printing; the idea that you can design nearly anything and create a physical model for it is astounding, and has great prospects for recreating prehistoric life.

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Review: Megatherium (Bullyland)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Bullyland Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.6 (10 votes)

With all that new JP, sorry, JW stuff around, let’s not forget that there’s plenty of retired figures not being reviewed yet. One of these is Bullyland’s Megatherium, released in 1998 and discontinued some years back. Despite representing a quite rare animal in the toy world, it probably wasn’t sold in big numbers, at least when one compares the chances spotting this on ebay or fleamarket sites with some other Bullyland figures as Stegosaurus or Tyrannosaurus.

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Review: Australopithecus male and female (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Australopithecus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

3.6 (10 votes)

Review and photographs by Indohyus, edited by Dinotoyblog
1974 was an important year in the understanding of human evolution. In the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, a set of bones were found that displayed ape and human characteristics, including bipedalism. This ‘missing link’ in human evolution was named Australopithecus afarensis, although the specimen itself was named Lucy, after the Beatles song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”.

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Review: Macrauchenia (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Macrauchenia Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Mammal Age: Miocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.8 (21 votes)

Review and photos by Indohyus, edited by Suspsy
Island isolation can have some amazing results in terms of evolution. Insular dwarfism for some organisms, gigantism for others, or simply some of the oddest creatures that can be conceived. Today’s review subject is an example of the latter, Macrauchenia, a liptotern from South America, which was an island continent during most of the Cenozoic era.

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Review: American Mastodon (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Mammut Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Miocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.6 (42 votes)

The American mastodon, Mammut americanum, is one of the very best-known prehistoric mammals. Many complete skeletons have been found throughout the North American continent, from this one-tusked male at the Royal Ontario Museum to this female and calf from the La Brea Tar Pits of California.

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Review: Prehistoric Mammal Skulls (Toob by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Arsinoitherium, Australopithecus, Coelodonta, Daeodon, Embolotherium, Mammut, Smilodon, Uintatherium, Woolly rhinoceros Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Cat, Elephant, Hominid, Mammal Age: Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Set, Skeletal, Tube

4.7 (9 votes)

Prehistoric skulls, be they those of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sea monsters, mammals, amphibians, or any other beasts, are always things of beauty and intrigue. Let us take a look at this interesting variety of mammal skulls from Safari Ltd. There are eight in total, all coloured medium brown with a pale brown wash, and all with their names printed on the undersides.

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