Scientists have long wondered if the wooly mammoth went extinct due to high levels of inbreeding.
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It is difficult to distinguish between elephant and mammoth ivory.
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
All the evidence points to one thing: humans and woolly mammoths certainly lived side by side. But did humans hunt mammoths too?
‘De-extinction’ seems like a way to save dying or dead species - but in reality it’s an expensive and impractical waste of time.
Permafrost in the Yukon is a treasure trove of ancient environmental DNA, but climate change threatens these rich historical archives.
While the prospect of reviving extinct species has long been discussed, advances in genome editing have now brought such dreams close to reality.
Our results have revolutionised the previously held view of the evolution of mammoths.
Some 13,000 years ago, an adult carrying in a child walked 1.5km in mud at great speed in the presence of hungry predators.
The Zimovs want to restore the prehistoric ‘mammoth steppe’ ecosystem and see if it slows down – or even reverses – melting permafrost.
The historical record is full of surprises – and it could encourage conservationists to think more creatively.
After the woolly mammoth and other megafauna became extinct, surviving animals mingled less. This has big implications for modern conservation.
Scientists have worked out a new way to scan beneath the ground for footprints – and it’s revealing traces of an ancient world.
Melting Siberian permafrost is exposing long-dead mammoths, creating a new trade in mammoth ivory.
Scientists studied the fossilized bones of giant beavers to understand what they ate and whether the species could keep up with environmental change.
Meteorite impacts have fundamentally shaped the history of our planet.
A 20-year-old experiment is testing whether filling the Arctic tundra with animals could keep carbon trapped in the ground.
A burst of wet weather could have helped to kill off mammoths and other large herbivores, by transforming much of the world’s grasslands into bogs and forests and depriving megafauna of food.
People arguing that a ban on mammoth ivory would help save elephants from extinction are wrong. Here’s why.
Animals that couldn’t adapt to rapid warming quickly succumbed.
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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