News tagged with woolly mammoths
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 ...
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.
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After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...
Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers released a well-studied beetle predator to test its ability to ward off a hemlock-killing aphid-like insect.
Life's Ancient Island in the Ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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During the last ice age, massive glaciers covered much of our planet. However, a region of Alaska, Siberia and the Canadian Yukon remained ice-free. This region, known as Beringia, supported unique organisms ...
Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and ...
Evolution axe goes on display
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009.
Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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.
Researchers: EU must allocate fewer emission allowances and stop making free allocations
Sep 28, 2009 |
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EU emissions trading has put a price on something that used to be free - the right to pollute the atmosphere.
Oil and wildlife don't mix in Ecuador's Eden
Sep 10, 2009 |
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What harm can a simple road do in a pristine place such as Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great deal, it turns out. Specifically, it ...
Lost World Found in Papua New Guinea Volcano
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, ...
Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study
Jul 04, 2009 |
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The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa."
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