First Tomography of a Well Preserved Baby Mammoth
	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 and hunter Yuri Khudi, who discovered it in Russia's Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region. Lyuba is weighi ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mystery Solved: Why Mammoths Were Humped
	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 front part of a mammoth calf was discovered in the Olchan mine in the Oimyakon Region of Yakutia (famous for being the place ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Trove of Ice Age Axes Found on the Bottom of the North Sea
	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, were encountered in marine sand and gravel scooped up by Hanson, a British construction materials company. The axes were acc ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Were the Mammoths?
	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 the Ice Age. This species lived 750.000 - 500.000 years ago and was 4.7 m (15.7 ft) tall, much taller than modern African ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mammoths Could be Cloned Starting From Their Hair
	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, but also a load of DNA that is undesirable. For example, when a mammoth dies and the body starts putrefying, bacte ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Further Evidence of an American Armageddon 12,900 Years Ago. When's the Next?
	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-density meteorite exploded in the planet's upper atmosphere, causing a devastating wave of destruction that killed most of the ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Last Nomads of the Tundra
	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, Khants, Evenks (Tungus), Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Koryaks and Dolgans. Even so, reindeer are not totally domesticated, as they g ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mammoth Dung is Going to Boost Global Warming
	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. And mammoths left mountains of it. "This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop,&q ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Boom of Mammoth Bone Hunting, Spurred by Permafrost Thawing in the Russian Tundra
	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 rhinos and cave lions. Private collectors and institutes will pay generously for the best specimens. "Last year someon ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Than Cheese: Cheddar Mammoths!
	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 2005 engravings dating probably from Mesolithic ("Middle Stone Age") at Aveline's Hole in Burringto ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

13,000 Years Ago, the American Armageddon Wiped Out the First Americans
	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, explaining the puzzle of a sudden cooling of much of the planet and the extinction of megafauna, such as the mammoths. &quo ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Elephant-Mammoth Evolution Explains Human Evolution
	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 appears that the mammoths and Asian elephants split about 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago when humans and apes could have shared a ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Best Preserved Mammoth Calf Found in Siberian Snow
	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," said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute. "Th ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mammoths Return Amongst Us
	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 can also be found preserved in bones or bodies encountered in dry caves or inside ice, for example. "Retrieval of DNA ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Real Jurassic Park with Neanderthals
	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 of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, also wants to reconstruct the gen ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Mammoth Carving: a 35,000 Years Old Lion
	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 carvings ever, 35,000 years old and still intact. The team at the University of Tübingen has recovered the figurin ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did Mammoths Disappear?
	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 other species, a picture is emerging of extinction not as a sudden event at the end of the last ice age, b ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

An Ice Age Mammoth Graveyard
	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 in the hillsides of the current Yakima, Columbia and Walla Walla valleys (southeastern Washington). The death corpses were repeated ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2007, 14:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia