We humans may or may not have killed off the giant mammals of the Ice Age. But we are unquestionably threatening innumerable species today, as we expand relentlessly into ever more of their habitats.
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The arctic woolly mammoth named Kik, one of the only Ice Age mammals whose life story is known in detail, was born approximately 17,100 years ago in the Alaskan interior, a region bounded by the ...
Next time you're sniffing and itching from a bout of hay fever, spare a thought for the doomed mammoth whose infamous ...
(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics, Grayson among them, have asked where's the evidence? Grayson and archeologist David Melzer of Southern ...
A new study suggests that clouds of pollen floating over the mammoth steppe at the end of the last ice age may have played a ...
That breakthrough came in the 1960s, when the National Science Foundation sent an army of paleontologists, archaeologists, and geologists to Tule Springs to answer a single question: Were our ...
as well as its distributional and genetic changes through the last ice age up to the present. The red deer, Cervus elaphus, is one of the most widespread large mammals, extending across Europe, ...
Our research will test current hypotheses to explain body size variation in ice-age mammals, including: Temperature: Large animals are better adapted to cold periods as they conserve heat more ...
[Related: Researchers want to unlock the genetics of the world’s tiniest animals.] ...
Stuffy noses from plant allergies may have meant mammoths couldn't smell each other's pheromones, resulting in them ...
Excavations revealed artefacts in deep Ice Age sediments preserved on a hillside ... as well as less familiar mammals, such as the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant and lion.