mammoths
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Subway Expansion Uncovers Mastodon Remains At Least 10,000 Years Old
Last week, a construction project for the Los Angeles subway turned into a scientific excavation after workers uncovered fossilised skull, tooth and tusk fragments from ancient elephant relatives that have been extinct for 10,000 years.
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Why The Last Wooly Mammoths On Earth Went Extinct
While the Sumerians were inventing writing over five thousand years ago, one of the last populations of wooly mammoths was making a desperate bid for survival on a remote Aleutian island. Now, we know how they died.
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Watches Crafted From Woolly Mammoth Ivory Will Make Your Savings Extinct
If you thought it was hard to get your hands on ivory from animals that still roam the Earth, you can imagine the difficulty in sourcing the material from creatures that died thousands of years ago. You’ll also understand why these unique mammoth watches cost upwards of $US44,000.
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Mammoths May Be Roaming The World Soon
Scientists have been trying to clone woolly mammoths for years, but now they’re really close. So close that in five years you may see herds of this gigantic beast — one of our favourite extinct prehistoric animals of all time.