Mammoths

In the News . . .

• Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm -- The Guardian (28 March 2023)
  
  
• Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits -- The Guardian (07 November 2019)
  
  
• Last woolly mammoths 'died of thirst' -- BBC News (02 August 2016)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoths' Demise Blamed on Freshwater Shortage -- Guardian (01 August 2016)
  
  
• Mastodon meal scraps revise US prehistory -- BBC News (14 May 2016)
  
  
• Discovery Points to Earlier Arrival of First Americans -- National Geographic News (13 May 2016)
  
  
• Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas -- Science Advances (13 May 2016)
  
  
• Giant Mammoth Skull Discovered by Bulldozer Operator -- LiveScience (29 March 2016)
  
  
• An Afternoon Walk and a Mammoth Find -- Phys.org (16 February 2016)
  
  
• Mammoth kill linked to earliest Arctic settlers -- BBC News (15 January 2016)
  
  
• Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago -- Science (14 January 2016)
  
  
• North American Mammoths Actually Evolved in Eurasia -- LiveScience (12 November 2015)
  
  
• Mammoths might have survived except for bad 'mineral diet' -- ScienceDaily (27 October 2015)
  
  
• As Big Mammals Die Off, Planet Suffers a Serious Poop Shortage -- Fox News (27 October 2015)
  
  
• Even Giant Mammoths Weren’t Safe From Prehistoric Predators -- Science (26 October 2015)
  
  
• Loss of Large Land Mammals Could Change Landscapes Forever -- ScienceDaily (26 October 2015)
  
  
• Research backs human role in extinction of mammoths, other mammals -- Phys.org (26 October 2015)
  
  
• Shift in Weaning Age Supports Hunting-Induced Extinction of Siberian Woolly Mammoths -- Phys.org (15 October 2015)
  
  
• Farmer Finds 15,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains in Michigan Field -- Guardian (02 October 2015)
  
  
• Mammoth Remains, as Far as the Eye Can See -- ScienceDaily (25 August 2015)
  
  
• Abrupt past warming events led to the extinction of megafauna -- Past Horizons (24 July 2015)
  
  
• Hot Spells Doomed the Mammoths -- Science (23 July 2015)
  
  
• Special Issue: From Mammoths to Neandertals, Ancient DNA Unlocks the Mysteries of the Past -- Science (23 July 2015)
  
  
• Scientists ‘Resurrect’ Woolly Mammoth Gene in Human Cell -- Discover (02 July 2015)
  
  
• Mammoth DNA Could Help ‘Woolly Elephants’ Roam Wild in Britain -- Telegraph (23 May 2015)
  
  
• The Last Wooly Mammoths Died Isolated and Alone -- Smithsonian (08 May 2015)
  
  
• This Bad-Boy Geneticist Wants to Clone a Mammoth -- Wired (23 March 2015)
  
  
• Mammoth Populations Were Decimated by Humans 30,000 Years Ago -- Past Horizons (08 February 2015)
  
  
• Latest Research Further Discredits Cosmic Impact Theory -- Past Horizons (07 January 2015)
  
  
• 39,000 Year-Old Mammoth Goes on Display in Russia -- BBC News (29 October 2014)
  
  
• Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home -- Science Daily (21 July 2014)
  
  
• Last Terrifying Moments of Baby Mammoths Revealed -- LiveScience (14 July 2014)
  
  
• Here’s What You Learn When You Put a Baby Mammoth in a 3-D Scanner -- Wired (08 July 2014)
  
  
• Humans, not climate, to blame for Ice Age-era disappearance of large mammals, study concludes -- Science Daily (04 June 2014)
  
  
• Early Dogs Helped Humans Hunt Mammoths -- Discovery News (02 June 2014)
  
  
• Dog domestication may explain European mammoth kill sites -- Past Horizons (29 May 2014)
  
  
• The Mammoth That Trampled on the History of Mankind -- Guardian (25 May 2014)
  
  
• Baby Mammoth Goes on Display in UK -- BBC News (19 May 2014)
  
  
• Did Inbreeding Doom the Mammoth? -- Science (25 March 2014)
  
  
• What Killed Off the Giant Beasts – Climate Change or Man? -- Guardian (15 March 2014)
  
  
• What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? -- Washington Post (10 February 2014)
  
  
• Mammoths' taste for flowers may have been their undoing -- Geoff Brumfiel, MPR (06 February 2014)
  
  
• What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? -- Science (28 January 2014)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth Comeback? 5 Ethical Challenges -- LiveScience (08 October 2013)
  • How to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth (Infographic) -- LiveScience (08 October 2013)
    
    
• Humans Not off the Hook for Megafauna Extinction -- Discovery News (26 September 2013)
  
  
• Giant Prehistoric Elephant Slaughtered by Early Humans --  ScienceDaily (19 September 2013)
  
  
• DNA Study Suggests Hunting Did Not Kill off Mammoth -- BBC News (10 September 2013)
  
  
• Did a Comet Really Kill the Mammoths 12,900 Years Ago? -- National Geographic News (10 September 2013)
  
  
• De-Extinction: Mammoth Prospect, or Just Woolly? -- BBC News (19 August 2013)
  
  
• Ice Core Data Supports Ancient Space Impact Idea -- BBC News (01 August 2013)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth DNA May Lead to a Resurrection of the Ancient Beast -- Guardian (30 July 2013)
  
  
  • How to clone a mammoth -- Guardian (31 July 2013)
    
    
  • Resurrecting woolly mammoths is exciting – but it's a fantasy-- Guardian (05 August 2013)
    
    
• Genetic testing reveals new clues to woolly mammoth extinction -- The Scout Report, 13 September 2013 (Volume 19, Number 37)
  
  
• The Quest Is to Clone a Mammoth. The Question Is: Should We Do It? -- Guardian (13 July 2013)
  
  
• Exceptionally Preserved Woolly Mammoth Goes on View -- NBC News (10 July 2013)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth Blood Found in Preserved Carcass -- Discovery News (29 May 2013)
  
  
• Russian scientists make rare find of 'blood' in mammoth -- PhysOrg (29 May 2013)
  
  
• Exploding Meteorite May Have Sealed Fate of the Mammoths -- Telegraph (21 May 2013)
  
  
• On the Horns of a Mammoth Dilemma -- Guardian (18 May 2013)
  
  
• 'Helmut' the Mammoth Found Near Paris -- Telegraph (08 November 2012)
  
  
• Flint flake hints at mammoth butchery -- Past Horizons (13 November 2012)
  
  
• Mammoth carcass found in Siberia -- BBC News (05 October 2012)
  
  
• Mammoth ivory workshop shows production line principals -- Past Horizons (26 September 2012)
  
  
• Mammoth Fragments Raise Cloning Hopes -- Telegraph (11 September 2012)
  
  
• Reviving Extinct Species May Not Be Science Fiction -- NPR (25 June 2012)
  
  
• Mammoth Field Found at Serbia Coal Mine 'Great Find for Ice Age Knowledge' -- Guardian (20 June 2012)
  
  
• Early North Americans lived alongside extinct giant beasts -- Past Horizons (05 May 2012)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth Carcass May Have Been Cut Into by Humans -- BBC News (04 Apri 2012)
  
  
  • Mammoth carcass found in Siberia -- BBC News (04 Apri 2012)
    
    
• Young Mammoth Likely Butchered by Humans -- Discovery News (04 April 2012)
  
  
• South Korean and Russian Scientists Bid to Clone Mammoth -- Telegraph (13 March 2012)
  
  
• Why There Are No More Woolly Mammoths -- Christian Science Monitor (15 February 2012)
  
  
• Siberia Was a Wildlife Refuge in the Last Ice Age -- New Scientist (10 January 2012)
  
  

• Ancient DNA from Dirt, Not Fossilized Bones, Shows Late Survival of Woolly Mammoth and Other Ice Age Megafauna -- ScienceDaily (14 December 2009)
  
  
• As Mammoths Died Out, Earth Chilled -- Discovery News (23 May 2010)
  
  
• Baby Mammoth Innards Revealed in X-Ray Images -- Live Science (07 November 2011)
  
  
• Baby Woolly Mammoth Provides Secrets of Survival in Ice Age -- Telegraph (05 October 2009)
  
  
• Big Love: Woolly Mammoths, Huge Elephants May Have Interbred -- LiveScience (31 May 2011)
  
  
• Climate Change Wiped Out Mammoths -- MSNBC (24 May 2010)
  
  
• Climate Change Wiped Out Woolly Mammoths, Saber-Toothed Cats -- Live Science (24 May 2010)
  
  
• Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (12 December 2011)
  
  
• DNA Suggests North American Mammoth Species Interbred -- Science News (08 November 2011)
  
  
• Dung Helps Reveal Why Mammoths Died Out -- BBC News (19 November 2009)
  
  
• Earliest American Art: Mammoth on Mammoth -- Discovery News (22 June 2011)
  
  
• Ever Wonder What A Woolly Mammoth Sounds Like? -- NPR (23 July 2011)
  
  
• Gremillion, Kristen J. Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  
  
• Helping Unravel Causes of Ice Age Extinctions -- ScienceDaily (02 November 2011)
  
  
• How Mammoths Lost the Extinction Lottery -- Nature (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Hybrid Mammoth DNA Found -- Discovery News (01 June 2011)
  
  
• Mammoth 'Could Be Reborn in Four Years' -- Telegraph (13 January 2011)
  
  
• Mammoth Genome Decoded -- Clones on the Way? -- National Geographic News (19 November 2008)
  
  
• Mammoth Mystery: What Killed Off the Woolly Beast? - Live Science (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Mammoth Skull Raised from Ground -- BBC News (7 September 2008)
  
  
• Mammoths Ate Their Own Poo -- Discovery News (07 June 2010)
  
  
• Mammoths Contributed to Global Warming with Methane Emissions -- Telegraph (2010-05-24)
  
  
• Mammoths Had 'Anti-Freeze Blood', Gene Study Finds -- BBC News (02 May 2010)
  
  
• Mammoths Moved 'Out of America' -- BBC News (4 September 2008)
  
  
• Neanderthals Built Homes With Mammoth Bones -- Telegraph (18 December 2011)
  
  
• Oldest American Art Found on Mammoth Bone -- National Geographic News (22 June 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric Dog Found With Mammoth Bone in Mouth -- Discovery News (07 October 2011)
  
  
• Protein from Bones of 600,000-Year-Old Mammoth Extracted Successfully -- Science Daily (30 March 2011)
  
  
• Reindeer Herder Finds Remains of Baby Mammoth in Russia's Arctic -- MSNBC (19 August 2011)
  
  
• Skin and Bones: Inside Baby Mammoths -- Live Science (07 November 2011)
  
  
• Unraveling the Causes of the Ice Age Megafauna Extinctions -- ScienceDaily (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Was ancient Cypriot cave a prehistoric diner? -- Reuters\Yahoo News (19 August 2009)
  
  
• What killed off the woolly mammoth still a mystery -- MSNBC (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Wooly Mammoth Carcass from Siberia Reveals Information About Ice-Age Creatures -- Washington Post (09 March 2010)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth Hunters Helped Change Climate -- Reuters (15 July 2010)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoth To Be Cloned -- Discovery News (05 December 2011)