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In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...
What is a Woolly Mammoth? The woolly mammoth was a very large elephant-like mammal that inhabited the Earth during the Ice Age and is now extinct. It survived in extremely cold conditions and was well ...
A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A new study suggests this drove the beasts to extinction, but not everyone ...
The bones of a Woolly Mammoth are out of the Ice Age and in Mahaska County for anyone to see. And the historic discovery is teaching us a lot about Iowa's history.
A pair of canines found in Siberian permafrost were wolf sisters that died shortly after eating. A pair of 14,000-year-old ...
A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...
This mammoth is particularly interesting because she lived and died at a time when Interior Alaska was in great flux – 14,000 years ago, around the end of the Ice Age.
The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, small ears, cold tolerance ...
Artifact and fossil collector Eddie Templeton was exploring in Mississippi when he made the shocking discovery, which turned out to be an ice-age Columbian mammoth tusk.
In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...