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Mammoth Hunters - Out With a Whimper or a Bang?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did a change in climate or an extraterrestrial impact bring an end to the beasts and people that roamed the Southwest shortly after the last ice age?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 5




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Powerful mathematical model greatly improves predictions for species facing climate change

UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

'Trophic cascades' of disruption may include loss of woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat

A new analysis of the extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago suggests that they may have fallen victim to the same type of "trophic cascade" of ecosystem disruption ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Small mammals -- and rest of food chain -- at greater risk from global warming than thought

The balance of biodiversity within North American small-mammal communities is so out of whack from the last episode of global warming about 12,000 years ago that the current climate change could push them ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Late-surviving megafauna exposed by ancient DNA in frozen soil

Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses may have been grazing the North American steppe for several thousand years longer than previously thought. After plucking ancient DNA from frozen soil in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Extinct sabertooth cats were social, found strength in numbers, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis), one of the most iconic extinct mammal species, was likely to be a social animal, living and hunting like lions today, according to new scientific resear ...

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created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Did a Significant Cool Spell Mark the Demise of Megafauna?

The end of the Pleistocene Epoch was marked with steadily warmer temperatures and the great ice age glaciers that covered vast areas of North America were in retreat.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 0


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