Ancient Chinese Cave Filled With Teeth
Inside a Chinese cave that once housed a Ming dynasty temple, political refugees and a modern movie theater, archaeologists have unearthed an unusual collection of 200,000-year-old teeth from ancient...
View ArticleBack from Pleistocene?
Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant By Richard Stone Perseus, 242 pp., illustrated, $26 When the glaciers began their northward retreat about 11,500 years ago and the world suddenly warmed,...
View ArticleMusk ox collared for study of risk from climate change
Polar bears, move over. The musk ox has now lumbered onto the list of animals potentially threatened by climate change. The mere chance has sent the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey,...
View ArticleCondors in wild need constant help to survive, study shows
The California condor, rescued from extinction in an elaborate and expensive recovery effort, has become tantamount to a zoo animal in the wild and can't survive on its own without a ban on lead...
View ArticleMammoths moved 'out of America'
Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths may have originated in North America. Their research in the journal Current Biology represents the largest study of ancient woolly...
View ArticleBig cat fossil found in North Sea
The partial leg bone of a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged from the seabed by a trawler in the North Sea. The fossil, which is between one and two million years old and found near the UK coast, is...
View ArticleBuffalo book herds adventure and history
Ever since Steven Rinella unearthed an old buffalo skull in Montana's Madison Mountains a decade ago, he has been obsessed with all things buffalo. He has cornered women at parties with buffalo trivia...
View ArticleMammoth skeleton found under old May Co. site
Daily News Wire ServicesUpdated: 02/18/2009 06:45:04 AM PST Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure have uncovered the nearly intact skeleton of a...
View ArticleHow giant lions once stalked Britain
Britain was once stalked by giant ancestors of modern lions, fossils in Yorkshire have revealed Britain was once stalked by huge lions, researchers at Oxford University have discovered. The wild...
View ArticleWarming makes birds migrate farther
15 Apr 2009, 1013 hrs IST, AFP Text: PARIS: Climate change will force bone-weary birds migrating to Europe from Africa to log extra mileage, with possibly devastating consequences, according to a...
View ArticleSan Diego Zoo's Elephant Odyssey now open
Last night, the San Diego Zoo celebrated the grand opening of its latest exhibit, the Elephant Odyssey, with a VIP party and special tour. The new, 7.5 acre home displays over 35 species of...
View ArticleAnimals that face new impacts by climate change
Washington, December 8 (ANI): The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a list of animals facing new impacts by climate change, some in strange and unexpected ways. The report, titled, "Species...
View ArticleMammoth Hunters - Out With a Whimper or a Bang?
Skeletal remains of mammoth, horse, camel, Dire wolf, and others tell of the megafauna that roamed southern Arizona during the Pleistocene Epoch until these large animals became extinct 13,000 years...
View ArticleWant to find your way fast? Follow a girl
IT is a scene that will be repeated countless times in supermarkets today. A male shopper roams the aisles in a desperate search for an item. His wife or girlfriend moves methodically around the...
View ArticleBald eagle diet shift enhances conservation
This photograph of a bald eagle was taken on the west end of Santa Catalina Island in 2008. Credit: Image courtesy Peter Sharpe, Institute for Wildlife Studies An unprecedented study of bald eagle...
View ArticleTrue causes for extinction of cave bear revealed
--> This Ursus spelaeus male skull found in Cova Eiros (Triacastela, Lugo). Credit: Grandal-D'Anglade et al. The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the...
View ArticleHunters may have delivered fatal blow to mammoths
CHERSKY, Russia - During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago - in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few...
View ArticleHunters May Have Killed Off Mammoths
CHERSKY, Russia -- During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago - in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few...
View ArticleIce Age Fossils Discovered Buried Beneath A Normal California Construction Site
A normal construction site just turned into the after turf for giant prehistoric creatures. Fossils from the Ice Age, scientifically referred to as the Pleistocene Epoch were discovered on a 60-acre...
View ArticleHow did the La Brea tar pits' first fiberglass mammoth get there?
The famous fiberglass mammoths at the La Brea tar pits have kept watch over Wilshire Boulevard for five decades. But few who gaze at the tourist attraction know how the prehistoric "creatures" got...
View ArticleGiant armadillos roamed South America thousands of years ago
(credit: Peter Schouten) If you missed the Pleistocene in the Americas, you never got to see all the fantastic megafauna we once had here: mastodons, sabre tooth cats, giant...
View ArticleAncient Puppy Recovered From Siberian Permafrost—Scientists Say Brain Is...
After 12,400 years in the frozen soil of the Sakha Republic, a Siberian subject of the Russian Federation, a puppy has been thawed and bares its teeth for the first time since the Pleistocene. The...
View ArticleHuman Ancestors Used to be Snacks For Ice Age Predators
As now highlighted by an ancient, heavily gnawed femur bone, we weren’t always at the top of the food chain. ......
View ArticleThere's a fascinating new theory about why the world plummets into ice ages...
For the past million years or so, the Earth has gone through an ice age every 100,000 years. Nobody knows precisely why. Before that, colder summers occurred about every 40,000 years until the Earth...
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