Search results for woolly mammoths
Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
DNA shows that last woolly mammoths had North American roots
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Sep 04, 2008 |
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In a surprising reversal of conventional wisdom, a DNA-based study has revealed that the last of the woolly mammoths—which lived between 40,000 and 4,000 years ago—had roots that were exclusively North American.
New discovery suggests mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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Research which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal. Analysis of both t ...
Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago
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Oct 04, 2009 |
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Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly.
Back to the future: Mastodon extends the time limit on DNA sequencing
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Jul 24, 2007 |
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In a new paper in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Michael Hofreiter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and colleagues from Switzerland and the United States, announce the sequencing ...
Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearance
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Jun 07, 2007 |
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Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a June 7th report published online in Current Bi ...
Scientists Sequence Woolly-Mammoth Genome
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Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer science ...
The mammoths' swan song revised
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...
Woolly-Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
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Jun 10, 2008 |
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A large genetic study of the extinct woolly mammoth has revealed that the species was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and that it did not have much genetic diversity.
Scientists Sequence Complete Genome of Woolly Mammoth
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Scientists have completed the oldest mitochondrial genome sequence from the 33,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth; results show mammoths and Asian elephants are a sister species that diverged soon after ...
Hair Untangles Woolly Mammoth Puzzle
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Sep 27, 2007 |
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Stephan C. Schuster and Webb Miller of Penn State University, working with Thomas Gilbert from Copenhagen and a large international consortium, discovered that hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient ...
Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2007 |
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New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much ...
Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle
Feb 26, 2009 |
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New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering ...
Mobile DNA elements in woolly mammoth genome give new clues to mammalian evolution
Jun 08, 2009 |
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The woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have analyz ...
Climate change, human hunting combine to drive the woolly mammoth extinct
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Does the human species have mammoth blood on its hands" Scientists have long debated the relative importance of hunting by our ancestors and change in global climate in consigning the mammoth to the history ...
