http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mammoth/ en-us Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:28:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052965/posts HOT SPRINGS -- Joanne Bugel is happy to be the Earthwatch volunteer who uncovered the 115th tusk at the Mammoth Site and moved the popular Hot Springs tourist site’s mammoth tally to 58. [snip] This group has been a particularly productive bunch, said crew chief Don Morris. [snip] Bones unearthed by 2008 Earthwatch volunteers include: three tusks, a tooth, a patella, six ribs, a fibula, four vertebra and assorted other bones. Neteal Graves, 18, of Kaycee, Wyo., also unearthed some coprolite – [snip] Graves has the Mammoth Site in her bloodline. In 1974, her mother, Cheri Graves, was a college... RapidCityJournal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052965/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999755/posts "Lyuba" gives scientists glimpse of mammoth insides By Dmitry Solovyov Thu Apr 10, 1:07 PM ETReuters Photo: The carcass of the 4-month-old mammoth, known to researchers as Lyuba, is seen on an... MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists say they have obtained the most detailed pictures so far of the insides of a prehistoric animal, with the help of a baby mammoth called Lyuba found immaculately preserved in the Russian Arctic. The mammoth is named after the wife of the hunter who found her last year. The body was shipped back to Russia in February from Japan, where it was studied... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999755/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995058/posts Climate Change And Human Hunting Combine To Drive The Woolly Mammoth ExtinctWoolly mammoths were driven to extinction by climate change and human impacts. (Credit: Mauricio Anton) ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) — Does the human species have mammoth blood on its hands" Scientists have long debated the relative importance of hunting by our ancestors and change in global climate in consigning the mammoth to the history books. A new paper uses climate models and fossil distribution to establish that the woolly mammoth went extinct primarily because of loss of habitat due to changes in temperature, while human hunting acted as the... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995058/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:57:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992161/posts NOVY URENGOI, Russia: As Viktor Seliverstov works in his makeshift studio in this hardscrabble Siberian town he is enveloped in a cloud of ivory dust. His electric carving tool whirrs over the milky surface of teeth and tusks, as he whittles them into key fobs, knife handles and scrimshaw figurines. But these are not whale bones or walrus tusks he is working on. The ivory in this part of the world comes from the remains of extinct woolly mammoths, as they emerge from the tundra where they have been frozen for thousands of years. It is a traditional Russian business... IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992161/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989058/posts Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2008) — On September 27, 2004, the front part of a baby mammoth’s body was found in Olchan mine in the Oimyakon Region of Yakutia. Specialists of the Museum of Mammoth of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Academy of Sciences of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), have been thoroughly studying the finding and they have published the first outcomes. There remained only the head, part of the proboscis, the neck area and part of the breast of the baby mammoth’s body. The body is practically cut off behind... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989058/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:15:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982619/posts The mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings By By Ned RozellMarch 5, 2008 A giant meteor may have exploded over Alaska thousands of years ago, shooting out metal fragments like buckshot, some of which embedded in the tusks of woolly mammoths and the horns of bison. Simultaneously, a large chunk of the meteor hit Alaska south of Allakaket, sending up a dust cloud that blacked out the sun over the entire state and surrounding areas, killing most of the life in the area. Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from... Alaska Report News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982619/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:03:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925275/posts Mammoth hunters' camp site found in Russia's Far East 13:02 | 12/ 11/ 2007 KHABAROVSK, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Archaeologists have found a 15,000 year-old hunters' camp site from the Paleolithic era near Lake Evoron in Russia's Far East, a source in the Khabarovsk archaeology museum said on Monday. "The site dates back to the end of the Ice Age, a period which is poorly studied" Andrei Malyavin, chief of the museum's archaeology department said. "That is why any new site from this period is a discovery in itself." The site, found during a 2007 archaeological expedition to Lake... Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925275/posts#comment Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1920073/posts Jill Cook, Deputy Keeper in the Department said: "Had I been shown this outline of a mammoth during a visit to one of the well known cave art sites in France or Spain, I would have nodded and been able to accept it in the context of other more obvious pictures. At Gough's, or anywhere in England, it is not so easy. Cave art is so rare here that we must always question and test to make sure we are getting it right. Opinions on this may differ but we do seem to be looking at an area of ancient... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1920073/posts#comment Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:50:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899489/posts WACO -- Not far from modest suburban homes in the middle of some thick Texas woods lies a secret boneyard.Surrounded by a tall chain-link fence and covered by what looks like a red-and-white circus tent, the site contains the remains of towering monsters. Remains of at least 25 mammoths, signs of a big saber-toothed cat and a long extinct camel have been found at the site.This is the Waco Mammoth Site, a collection of prehistoric fossils embedded in the dirt not far from the Bosque River. The site could be a potent educational resource if it were not off-limits to... Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899489/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:21:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864472/posts A mammoth that died 10,000 years ago was unearthed in Siberia. cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864472/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:17:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864467/posts Should scientists try to clone a mammoth if DNA is obtained from remains found in Siberia? Yes No cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864467/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:58:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863471/posts Frozen baby mammoth to be sent to Japan for research (Kyodo) _ A frozen mammoth found recently in Russia in unprecedented good condition is set to be sent to a Japanese university for examination, several experts told Kyodo News on Friday. The mammoth, thought to be a six-month-old female, was found in the best state of preservation among all frozen mammoths ever recovered, said the experts. "The mammoth has no defects except that its tail was bit off," said Alexei Tikhonov, vice director of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "In terms of its state of preservation,... Kyodo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863471/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:48:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853650/posts 35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany In southwestern Germany, an American archaeologist and his German colleagues have found the oldest mammoth-ivory carving known to modern science. And even at 35,000 years old, it's still intact. The 35,000-year-old mammoth figurine was revealed on Wednesday. REUTERS Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen have recovered the first entirely intact woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura, a 220-meter long plateau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, thought to have been made by the first modern humans some 35,000 years ago. It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving ever found. "You can be... Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853650/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848403/posts Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearanceSome ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a June 7th report published online in Current Biology. DNA lifted from the bones, teeth, and tusks of the extinct mammoths revealed a “genetic signature” of a range expansion after the last interglacial period. After the mammoths’ migration, the population apparently leveled off, and one of two lineages died out. “In combination with the results on other species, a picture is emerging of... Psysorg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848403/posts#comment Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789921/posts The Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, likely were not the first humans in the Americas, according to research placing their presence as more recent than previously believed. Using advanced radiocarbon dating techniques, researchers writing in the journal Science on Thursday said the Clovis people, hunters of large Ice Age animals like mammoths and mastodons, dated from about 13,100 to 12,900 years ago. That would make the Clovis culture, known from artifacts discovered at various sites including the town of Clovis, New Mexico, both younger and shorter-lived than previously thought. Previous estimates had dated the culture to about... yahoo...Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789921/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:34:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788982/posts archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century... The jaw and tooth weigh 65 pounds and are about a yard long. Sarti-Sweeney took the bones home and, after some online research with her older brother, determined the football-sized rock was actually the tooth of a long-extinct mammoth. Paleontology and archaeology experts have confirmed the find, and recent digging at the site has turned up teeth and bones from a second mammoth, giant sloths, camels, turtles with shells up to 6-feet-long, saber-toothed cats and giant armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles. Scientists believe the... yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788982/posts#comment Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:03:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750809/posts GRAPEVINE — These bones won’t talk — at least not until they’re unearthed again.Still smarting over the theft of dinosaur footprints this spring, the Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Grapevine have reburied parts of a Columbian mammoth that were found along the receding shore line.Visitors came across a jawbone and part of a tusk, and there may be more bones in the area, but there are no plans to study the location that is somewhere on 1,200 acres of Corps property under lease to the city, said Dale King, a conservation specialist with the corps. The find... Star-Telgram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750809/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/695260/posts Interview with Ross MacPhee What killed the mammoths and other behemoths that once roamed the Americas? This mammalogist thinks it may have been hyperlethal disease Image: Clare Flemming Around 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, North America witnessed an extinction that claimed its mammoths, giant ground sloths, camels and numerous other large-bodied animals. Exactly what happened to these megafauna is unknown. Indeed, researchers have puzzled over their disappearance for decades. Traditional explanations hold that either dramatic climate shifts, or human hunting (overkill) extinguished these species. But in recent years a new hypothesis has emerged. According... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/695260/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/737586/posts "Jurassic Park" was a work of fiction. Pleistocene Park is in the process of becoming fact. A joint team of Japanese and Russian scientists arrived in the Siberian province of Yakutsk late last month to excavate a number of creatures that have been extinct for millennia -- including mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. They plan to extract DNA from the frozen remains, cross-breed the retrieved nuclei with the creatures' modern-day counterparts and return the resurrected dinosaurs to a vast "safari park" in northern Siberia. "It probably sounds a little far-fetched, but it's absolutely possible to do this," said professor Akira Iritani,... Japan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/737586/posts#comment Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:12:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677172/posts Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of tiny bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors. The thumbnail-sized bone fragments are engraved with parallel lines and match similar artefacts uncovered in the same area during the 19th century. They were carved by hunter-gatherers as they slowly made their way north in pursuit of moving populations of mammoth and reindeer 25-30,000 years ago. The unusual find was made by a Cambridge scholar, Becky Farbstein, who has been working at Predmosti in north Moravia, in the... Psysorg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677172/posts#comment Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:34:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660376/posts 2,300-year-old artefacts may change Ashoka-Buddhist history (FOC) BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Institute of Maritime and South East Asian Studies (OIMSEAS) has unearthed some 2,300-year-old artefacts at Jajpur district in Orissa, which, it claimed, could change some historical narratives on the Ashokan period. The description of Chinese pilgrim Hieun-Tsang about Ashoka that he had constructed 10 stupas in Odra country where Buddha had preached may come true. Earlier, historians refused to accept the narrative. We have already analysed five stupas and found three more similar structures,” OIMSEAS Director Debaraj Pradhan told mediapersons here. He said a huge inscribed monolithic stupa along with other... Delhi India Organiser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660376/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683875/posts BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... Times on line/ Drudgereport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683875/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:46:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684220/posts Ice Age DNA may now be sequenced 15 August 2006 JURASSIC PARK here we come? Not quite, but we might now be able to sequence the genomes of mammoths and even Neanderthals, thanks to a new way to correct the errors in sequencing ancient DNA that are made because it degrades over time. When Svante Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analysed DNA from 50 to 50,000-year-old bone samples from wolves, a single error stood out: one of DNA's "letters", cytosine, had degraded in such a way that sequencing machines misinterpreted it as... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684220/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:33:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684082/posts BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... Times UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684082/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:23:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543901/posts (Filed: 20/12/2005) The first serious possibility that the woolly mammoth, or something like it, could walk on Earth again was raised yesterday by an international team of scientists. Woolly mammoths died out approximately 10,000 years ago A portion of the genetic code of the mammoth has been reconstructed and, to the surprise of scientists, the team that carried out the feat believes that it will be possible to decode the entire genetic make-up. The tusked beast stood 12-feet tall, weighed up to seven tons and had a shaggy dark brown coat that hung from its belly. DNA was extracted from... news.Telegraph.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543901/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:56:21 GMT