Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse,...
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But Blauwet had a better idea of what it was, thanks to a lifelong interest in pre-historic animals: a wooly...
If we did bring extinct animals back into modern ecosystems, we may end up running into other serious problems, says...
New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly mammoths in Eurasia, occurring thousands of...
HOUSTON — Growing up in Cuba, Atlanta Braves outfielder Jorge Soler was already so tall by around 9 or 10,...
Every few years for the past 20 or so, the story resurfaces, frozen in time like a permafrost carcass. At...
At the time, researchers were learning how to reconstruct the genomes of extinct species based on fragments of DNA retrieved...
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the...
“That was very surprising to me,” says Bataille of these ranges, which were much larger than he’d expected. “It definitely...
Oregon State University research has identified a 100-million-year-old weevil unlike any other known fossilized or living weevil. George Poinar Jr.,...