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Hunting weapons

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Article says that Clovis points were 'carved'. Apparently the writer knows nothing about flintknapping. You can't 'carve' flint, obsidian, and other similar stones with the materials peoples with neolithic technologies had access to. These points were rather pressure-flaked after the initial percussion used to prepare the cobbles to produce large blades from which the smaller finished products were produced. This is true espec~~ially of the long central fluting running down the length of the Clovis point from the tang to the tip. ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:89:C701:9190:B84B:5090:2420:8E9D (talk) 01:45, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

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... that the American Museum of Natural History has exhibited a sample of Mylodon dung from Argentina with a note that reads "deposited by Theodore Roosevelt"?

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Charlie Faust (talk) 18:45, 31 October 2025 (UTC).Reply

@Charlie Faust: once again, I'm going to have to reject this, as I asked of you on Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Zimmer, please read WP:DYKNOT for the requirements for this: the article has to have seen signifigant improvement – either creation, 5x expansion, or promotion to WP:GA status – to be permissable. This article is not. Do not take this personally. Roast (talk) 04:18, 1 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I did not know this, though I do now. Thank you.

Elephants

Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Regarding this segment from the lead:

"...the largest belonged to the genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, and were roughly the size of modern-day elephants."

Can we please clarify if they were the size of Asian or African elephants? OrdinaryOtter (talk) 02:41, 8 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

↑ Bell, C.M. (2002). "Did elephants hang from trees? - the giant sloths of South America". Geology Today. 18 (2): 63–66 (see p. 66). Bibcode:2002GeolT..18...63B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2451.2002.00334.x. S2CID 130426084.
↑ Roosevelt, T.R. (1915-01-04). "Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Herbert Sherwood". theodorerooseveltcenter.org. Dickinson State University. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
↑ "Roosevelt Collections". amnh.org/exhibitions. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
↑ Warren, D. (2016-05-28). "The ground sloth". Essays in Idleness. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[Bell2002-1] Bell, C.M. (2002). "Did elephants hang from trees? - the giant sloths of South America". Geology Today. 18 (2): 63–66 (see p. 66). Bibcode:2002GeolT..18...63B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2451.2002.00334.x. S2CID 130426084.

[TRCenter-2] Roosevelt, T.R. (1915-01-04). "Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Herbert Sherwood". theodorerooseveltcenter.org. Dickinson State University. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[AMNH-3] "Roosevelt Collections". amnh.org/exhibitions. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[Warren2015-4] Warren, D. (2016-05-28). "The ground sloth". Essays in Idleness. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

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