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NEWS ABOUT: woolly mammoth

woolly mammoth stories: 10 news summaries

Climate Change, Not Humans, Killed Mammoths 

New tests suggest humans aren't to blame for extinction of prehistoric pachyderms

Jun 18, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - British scientists believe climate change did more than spear-wielding humans to wipe out the woolly mammoth in Europe, the Guardian reports. New tests have revealed that the mammoths roamed northern Europe until 14,000 years ago, much later than had been thought. Researchers believe the animals died out as the... More »

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climate change • extinction • woolly mammoth • prehistoric mammals • Mammoth • ice age

(Newser) - A nearly perfectly preserved 37,000-year-old baby mammoth is giving up tantalizing secrets about her species, scientists report. The creature, dubbed Lyuba by researchers, still sports clumps of hair and eyelashes, according to the Telegraph. Scientists have been able to examine stomach contents and the mineral makeup of the bones... More »

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Siberia • extinction • species • extinct • woolly mammoth • prehistoric • prehistoric mammals • Mammoth • ice age

 LA Unearths 
 Mammoth 
 Fossil Stash 

Giant cache of Ice Age fossils unearthed from under city park

Feb 18, 09 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Workers digging up an underground Los Angeles parking garage have unearthed the biggest cache of fossils from the last Ice Age ever discovered, including a nearly intact mammoth skeleton, reports the Los Angeles Times. Researchers have lifted huge chunks of earth from the site adjacent to the La Brea tar... More »

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Los Angeles • paleontology • fossil • woolly mammoth • Mammoth

Comet Might Not Have Killed Mammoths After All: Study

Peat bog analysis contradicts cometary impact theory

Jan 29, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - New evidence undermines the theory that the impact from a comet killed off the woolly mammoth and enough humans to end the prehistoric Clovis culture, the BBC reports. Supporters of the impact theory point to a planet-wide rash of wildfires, but while a new analysis of sediment under North American... More »

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research • extinction • comet • woolly mammoth • soil sample • nanodiamonds • Mammoth

OPINION

 The 5 Best Species to Resurrect 

DNA samples still exist for many extinct megafauna

Jan 8, 09 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Now that scientists have the woolly mammoth’s genome, the possibility of resurrecting the giant creatures—and other impressive species from our planet’s past—is a bit closer. Which megafauna would you bring back? New Scientist lists its favorites:
  • Sabre-toothed tiger. This massive cat with huge fangs would
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DNA • extinction • genome • gorilla • woolly mammoth • animal

 Scientists  
 Map DNA 
 of Woolly 
 Mammoth  

Neanderthals, early humans could be next

Nov 19, 08 6:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have pieced together the nearly complete genome of the woolly mammoth from a hair strand found in Siberia, National Geographic reports. It's the first time scientists have decoded the nuclear DNA of an extinct species. The development makes it theoretically possible for the mammoths to roam the earth again... More »

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science • DNA • natural history • genome • woolly mammoth • scientific breakthroughs

 Frozen 
 Mice Cloned; 
 This Guy Next? 

Nuclear transfer technique revives genomes

Nov 4, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Japanese scientists have succeeded in cloning mice frozen as long as 16 years, leading them to predict that the technique could be used to resurrect the likes of woolly mammoths. The researchers found that frozen brain cells worked best, though brain cells haven’t worked when cloning live mice, and... More »

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genetics • woolly mammoth • clone • animal cloning

BC Movie Critters Strong
on Terror, Not Accuracy

Still, most of the beasts in the new flick did exist somewhere at some point

Mar 5, 08 8:42 PM CST
(Newser) - The computer-generated critters in the movie 10,000 BC—due out Friday—all actually existed at some point, but their portrayal in the film is scientifically sketchy. Saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths weren't as big as portrayed, and the film's huge terror birds died out 40 million years ago. One... More »

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fossil • woolly mammoth • ancient Egypt • prehistoric mammals • movies • 10,000 BC • saber-toothed cats • terror birds • special effects

To Be, or Not: That Is the Question for Irregular Verbs

Study shows language evolves à la Darwin, less-used forms die off

Oct 11, 07 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Irregular verbs, much like the Kennewick Man, evolve. But, much like the woolly mammoth, sometimes they vanish altogether, and linguists and evolutionary theorists have teamed up to compute their extinction times—in terms of half-lives. The study, published this week in Nature, shows that irregular forms of lesser-used verbs... More »

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evolution • language • linguistics • Kennewick Man • irregular verbs • woolly mammoth

Mammoth Fur Yields Mammoth Results

Scientists reconstruct DNA using new twist
on old technique

Sep 28, 07 4:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Instead of combing databases for clues about woolly mammoth DNA, scientists literally combed the extinct mammals, and the technique has led to a breakthrough: genetic information reconstructed from a hair shaft. Long considered an inferior source for DNA mining, hair turns out to benefit from the presence of keratin, a... More »

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DNA • fur • genetic code • woolly mammoth

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