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1.2 million year old mammoth tooth from the Krestovka mammoth. Credit: Pavel Nikolskiy

World’s oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved

Geology Page - February 17, 2021

A huge mammoth graveyard has been uncovered at the site of Mexico City's new airport

Mammoth graveyard unearthed at Mexico’s new airport

Mammoth bones are pictured in Tultepec, Mexico in this handout photograph released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology (INAH)

Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico

Woolly mammoth illustration Mauricio Antón © 2008 Public Library of Science

Archaeologist finds evidence of extinction theory

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Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon

Geology Page - February 16, 2018

Intact Mammoth Rib

Researchers recover more mammoth bones from Chelsea-area farm

Geology Page - December 2, 2017

A mammoth tusk

Male mammoths more often fell into ‘natural traps’ and died, DNA...

Geology Page - November 4, 2017

Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables

Geology Page - August 5, 2017

A mammoth task – how do we decide which species to...

Geology Page - May 17, 2017

Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction

Geology Page - March 2, 2017

Mammoth exhibit highlights the ‘unfolding process of discovery’

Geology Page - November 2, 2016

Paleontologists found a big mammoth bones

Geology Page - October 4, 2016

Exceptionally well-preserved fossil of complete mammoth skull raises questions

Geology Page - September 20, 2016

A Mammoth Undertaking

Geology Page - August 26, 2016

Lack of water likely caused extinction of isolated Alaska mammoths

Geology Page - August 2, 2016

Remains of mammoth uncovered in Mexico

Geology Page - June 26, 2016

DNA proves mammoths mated beyond species boundaries

Geology Page - April 22, 2016

Partial skull of Columbian mammoth found in Oklahoma

Geology Page - March 29, 2016

An afternoon walk and a mammoth find

Geology Page - February 16, 2016

Pakistan scientists ‘find 1.1 million year-old stegodon tusk’

Geology Page - February 16, 2016

Mammoth bones uncovered at Oregon State University

Geology Page - January 28, 2016

Bones of hunted mammoth show early human presence in Arctic

Geology Page - January 14, 2016

Mammoths might have declined due to mineral starvation

Geology Page - October 28, 2015

Research backs human role in extinction of mammoths, other mammals

Geology Page - October 26, 2015

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This figure illustrates how inorganic carbon cycles through the mantle more quickly than organic carbon, which contains very little of the isotope carbon-13. Both inorganic and organic carbon are drawn into Earth's mantle at subduction zones (top left).

Study points to one cause for several mysteries linked to breathable...

December 2, 2019

140-million-year-old dinosaur tooth found in Malaysia

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Life on Earth likely started 4.1 billion years ago, much earlier...

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Yellowstone Lake Geology

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