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Japanese cloning experts announced on Tuesday that they were successful in cloning a mouse that has been dead for 15 years, and that the new animal turned out fine. It was even able to reproduce with another female rat, which gave researchers a field day, seeing how this step in science could bring forth a cloning "r... |
4 November 2008
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After Hurricane Ike destroyed her house on the beach in Caplen, on the ravaged Bolivar Peninsula in Texas, paleontologist Dorothy Sisk discovered the fossilized remains of a mammoth tooth. Soon after the disaster, Dorothy Sisk asked her colleague, Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist from the Lamar University ... |
6 October 2008
10:18 GMT |
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In May 2007, a baby mammoth found in the Russian permafrost represented the best preserved mammoth ever found (and even the best preserved prehistoric animal). The animal looked like it had just died, missing only its hair. The 37,000-year-old female specimen was baptized "Lyuba" after the wife of reindeer breeder an... |
14 April 2008
02:39 GMT |
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The increasing melting of the permafrost, the frozen ground of the north, due to the global warming, is exposing increasingly more frozen mammoths. Now, even calves. In May 2007, a complete frozen body of a 6-year-old mammoth calf was found in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region of the Arctic Russia. On September 27, 2004, the... |
22 March 2008
06:07 GMT |
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During the Ice Age, the North Sea was just a grassy plain dwelt by mammoths, deer and ... humans. Now, the Dutch Jan Meulmeester, an amateur archaeologist, has discovered a unique collection of Stone Age hand axes made of material coming from the bottom of the North Sea. 28 axes, possibly up to 100,000 years old, wer... |
18 March 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Mammoths are fossil elephants, closely related to the Asian elephants, from whose branch they split off 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago. They appeared in Africa where two species of mammoth lived 4.8 MA ago. A huge mammoth species, the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) roamed the plains of northern Eurasia during ... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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In the end, extinct species could be revived not only with DNA coming from the body's tissue but also from hair! Hair has been found to be a better source of ancient DNA than bone or muscle in a research made on woolly mammoths. "The main problem with things like bone is that it contains real DNA from the source... |
28 September 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Only a skilled space driller like Bruce Willis could have saved the mammoths and Ice Age Americans about 12,900 years ago. Scientists tried to explain the mammoths' disappearance by human overhunting, climate change and disease, but there is an increasingly plausible hypothesis stating that a comet or low-densit... |
25 September 2007
04:33 GMT |
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While in North America, many Indian and Inuit (Eskimos) groups had their subsistence linked to reindeer and hunt them, in Eurasia, many Arctic tribes had an even closer connection with the sole larger survival of the Ice Age, as the species have been herded for about 4-5,000 years, from the Sami (Lapps) to Nenets, Kh... |
24 September 2007
14:51 GMT |
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A trip into the Siberian tundra will remind you now of a visit at a cow farm. Because of the scent. But what you smell is not cow dung, but mammoth one: this is the syrupy mud, resulted from the thawing of the permafrost. Just another symptom of global warming: the prehistoric dung lifted from suspended animation. An... |
20 September 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Thousands of years following their extinction, mammoths still help people earn a living. In the Siberian tundra, the frozen grassland high up in the Arctic Circle, the climbing temperature is thawing out the permafrost (the frozen soil) to show off the fossilized bones of prehistoric megafauna like mammoths, woolly r... |
19 September 2007
06:39 GMT |
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Finally, the British can calm down: 13,000 years ago they were artists, just like those Spaniards and French, as a possible late Upper Palaeolithic ("Old Stone Age") engraving has been found at Cheddar Caves and Gorge by a team of the University of Bristol Speleological Society (UBSS). The same team discovered in 200... |
16 August 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Now we have Bruce Willis to save us, but 13,000 years ago, the Americans didn't have their hero to save them from the Armageddon they experienced. New proof brought by a team from the University of California at Santa Barbara shows that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explain... |
16 August 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Humans and elephants evolved in the same African dry savanna. That's why elephant fossils offer a clue on the type of environment in which our ancestors lived. An analysis of DNA painstakingly retrieved from an ancient mastodon tooth has further pushed back the time when mammoths split off from elephants. It app... |
24 July 2007
04:55 GMT |
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It lacks only hair. As for the rest, it looks like it died yesterday. The recent finding in May 2007 of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost offers the best chance so far to build a genetic map of the Ice Age extinct species."It's a lovely little baby mammoth indeed, found in perfect condition," sa... |
12 July 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Currently, we can see mammoths only in animation, but modern science could bring back them 'live and kicking'. DNA, the heredity molecule, has everything to do with this issue. Complete DNA sequences have been decoded for many living species, like humans, dogs and mice. And the DNA of long-extinct species c... |
27 June 2007
05:17 GMT |
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This seems like taken from the most surreal fiction, but you could soon say "Hallo" to creatures that preceded you in the evolution. A team studying Neanderthal DNA says it could be possible to build a complete Neanderthal genome, despite the degradation in time of its genetic material. The team led by Svante Paabo o... |
26 June 2007
09:16 GMT |
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During Ice Age, the plains of Europe were filled with a savanna-like fauna: elephants (read mammoths), lions and rhinos (even if woolly ones). And this was recorded by even the first Homo sapiens entering Europe. American and German archaeologists have found in southwestern Germany the oldest woolly mammoth-ivory car... |
25 June 2007
03:38 GMT |
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By far, this is the most emblematic giant beast of the Ice Age: the woolly mammoth. Now, a research investigating DNA from the bones, teeth and tusks of the extinct mammoths showed how their populations fluctuated after the last interglacial period, during the last glaciation. "In combination with the results on othe... |
11 June 2007
02:48 GMT |
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From African explorers to the Tarzan's adventures, we have heard about the mysterious elephants' graveyards. Now, researchers have revealed an Ice Age graveyard of the Ice Age's elephants: mammoths. The fossils, some of them complete skeletons of Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were stored i... |
8 May 2007
14:22 GMT |
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