paleontology
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Scientists Find Mammoth Seemingly Butchered by Humans on Arctic Island
Kotelny Island sits high up in the Arctic, off the coast of Northern Siberia. It’s cold and barren now, mostly absent of humans. But over 20,000 years ago, this island was home to huge megafauna. Melting permafrost is exposing evidence of this past life, including three large woolly mammoth skeletons discovered there in 2019.
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Birds With 6.10 m Wingspans Once Patrolled the Skies of Antarctica
A re-analysis of two fossils found in the 1980s has led to the discovery of an absolutely enormous Antarctic seabird.
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Scimitar-Toothed Cats Hunted Prey to Exhaustion, DNA Study Suggests
Scientists have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat species known as Homotherium latidens, also called the scimitar-toothed cat. The resulting DNA analysis suggests these Pleistocene predators were fearsome pack hunters capable of running for long distances as they chased their prey to exhaustion.
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Ice Age Cave Bear Found Exquisitely Preserved in Siberian Permafrost
Reindeer herders working on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island in arctic Russia have stumbled upon an incredibly well-preserved cave bear, in what scientists say is a discovery of “world importance.”