News tagged with mammoth
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Musk ox population decline due to climate, not to humans, study finds
Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the first study ...
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Scans became a mammoth project
Lyuba was not typical of the subjects Jason Polzin examines with X-ray, CT or MRI machines at GE Healthcare.
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Feb 22, 2010 |
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Mammoth Achievement: Researchers at the forefront of molecular biology
Forget Jurassic Park. By successfully sequencing the DNA of a long-extinct species, Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller have helped push back the boundaries of molecular biology.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Late-surviving megafauna exposed by ancient DNA in frozen soil
Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses may have been grazing the North American steppe for several thousand years longer than previously thought. After plucking ancient DNA from frozen soil in ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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The mammoths' swan song revised
This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago
Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly.
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Oct 04, 2009 |
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Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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New discovery suggests mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago
Research which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal. Analysis of both t ...
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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Mobile DNA elements in woolly mammoth genome give new clues to mammalian evolution
The woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have analyz ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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A million-year-old mammoth skeleton found in Serbia: report
A finely preserved skeleton of a mammoth, believed to be one million years old, was uncovered near an archaeological site in eastern Serbia, local media reported on Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...
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May 13, 2009 |
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3 boys turn up mammoth bone in southwest Michigan
(AP) -- Three boys in southwest Michigan have turned up what has been identified as a bone from a mammoth.
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Mar 29, 2009 |
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Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
First an explosion as powerful as thousands of megatons of TNT rained meteorites down on North America. Then forest fires broke out across the continent, sending up a thick layer of soot and dust that blocked ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 02, 2009 |
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