woolly mammoth
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New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living Mammoth
The last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That’s the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammoth genomes to understand how the population’s genetic diversity may have played a role…
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14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age Campsite
A female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists that recently scrutinized isotopes in the tusk. The massive proboscidean was 20 when she died, according to the team’s research, published today in Science Advances.…
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This Elephant-Like Giant Roamed South America for 2 Million Years
Its tusks were thick and relatively straight; its ears broad and leathery. Its nimble trunk could reach over the heads of giant ground sloths and huge armoured glyptodonts to pluck leaves high up in trees. Wide, column-like legs supported 6 tons of weight. But don’t call it an elephant.
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Some Palaeontologists Think They have Found Fossilised Dinosaur DNA. Others Aren’t So Sure
Dinosaur researchers working on extremely well-preserved remains from the Jehol Biota in northeastern China recently reported that they had detected fossilised biomolecules in a duck-billed dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.