Researchers traced a woolly mammoth’s movements using isotope profiling, linking it to human settlements 14,000 years ago. The study revealed the mammoth’s extensive travel and…
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Researchers have compared the genomes of woolly mammoths and modern-day elephants to identify the unique characteristics of woolly mammoths. In a study published in Current…
Cameron Schwalbach, left, paleontology collections manager for the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Geier Collections and Research Center, and University of Cincinnati assistant professor Joshua Miller examine…
Genetic material found in permafrost sediments from the Yukon contains rich information about ancient ecosystems. Credit: Julius Csotonyi/Government of Yukon In 2010, small cores of…
Researchers used DNA capture-enrichment technology developed at McMaster to isolate and rebuild the fluctuating animal and plant communities during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Credit: Julius Csotonyi…
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and…
Woolly mammoths persisted in Siberia until the mid-Holocene. Credit: Mauricio Anton New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly…
A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees.…
An illustration of an adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original,…
An illustration of an adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original,…
Dusk falls on East Africa’s Turkana Basin 4 million years ago, where our early upright-walking ape ancestors, Australopithecus anamensis (foreground), shared their habitat with several…
The majority of the bones found at the site investigated, in the Russian Plains, are from mammoths. A total of 51 lower jaws and 64…