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NEWS ABOUT: Mammoth

Mammoth stories: 5 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

Tusk of
Rare Pygmy Mammoth Found on Calif. Island 

Find may help solve extinction mystery

Jan 15, 09 6:19 AM CST
(Newser) - A tusk that may belong to a rare pygmy mammoth, a dwarf version of the giant elephant-like mammal that roamed the Earth thousands of years ago, has been found on Santa Cruz Island off California, reports the Los Angeles Times. The 4-foot-long tusk, more than 10,000 years old, was... More »

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Nature Conservancy • Mammoth • Santa Cruz Island • Channel Islands • Kristina Gill • UC Santa Barbara • Chumash • Santa Rosa Island

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