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Mammoths are malformed when near extinction
While studying the collection of twisted feather mammoth fossils in several European museums, experts discovered they often had birth defects when near extinction.
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New achievements in the process of cloning prehistoric mammoths
Researchers are hoping to successfully replicate fine-haired mammoths.
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Found mammoth ivory in the middle of American streets
When digging water pipes in Seattle, USA on February 11, workers found mammoth ivory 10,000 years ago.
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New discovery about the cause of mammoth extinction
Recent research has strengthened the theory that comets are the culprits that caused the mass extinction of ancient animals around 12,900 years ago.
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Mammoth exhibition 39,000 years ago
Visitors to Taipei, Taiwan can visit a mammoth specimen about 3m long. It was a 10-year-old smooth-haired elephant named Yuka.
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Restoring mammoths from corpses
Scientists who have pioneered the Dolly cloned sheep have just planned to use frozen cells from mammoth corpses to revive ancient monsters.
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Graveyard mammoth under the Volga river
Russia's largest river is likely to contain a mammoth graveyard. Scientists hypothesize that after divers often encounter prehistoric animal bones in the riverbed.
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Detecting ancient phenomenon on the seabed of Cu Lao Cham
An ancient statue lying on the seabed of Cu Lao Cham beach, TP. Hoi An has just been discovered by a scuba diver and has donated Hoi An Museum ...
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Revealing the cause of the elephant's extinction
Mammoths disappeared from the ground after massive meteorites fell to Earth 12 thousand years ago. Many animals that cannot adapt to such sudden changes in climate have…
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Unearthing mammoths with fresh blood in Siberia
During a Siberian expedition, a group of scientists found the mammoth corpse stored in perfect condition, so that the blood remained in the animal's body.
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Find the set of hooks from the ice age
Archaeologists have found six hooks made of mammoth bones, created and used by the ancient people at the end of the ice age, about 12,300 years ago.
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Discover rare and precious southern mammoth bones
A newly discovered rare southern mammoth skeleton in the Tersk region of the Kabardino-Balkaria Autonomous Republic (Russia).
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Discovering mammoth bones near Paris
French archaeologists found an almost intact mammoth skeleton from the Ice Age in the countryside of Paris.
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The Russian boy found 30,000 years old mammoth
The boy, Yevgeny Salinder, lives with his family near a polar station on the Taimyr peninsula, northern Russia. The boy found this frozen animal while walking along the…
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America: A farmer finds the mammoth skeleton in his yard
Experts say he has the entire skeleton of a 14,000-year-old mammoth in the Ice Age and this is an extremely rare finding. However, the man only said that John was planni…