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A Puppy Has Dug Up A 13,000-Year-Old Bone Belonging To An Ice Age Woolly Mammoth

A Puppy Has Dug Up A 13,000-Year-Old Bone Belonging To An Ice Age Woolly Mammoth

A Labrador pup named Scout will forever go down in history as the ultimate good boy. The eight-month-old puppy has contributed to an exciting paleontological find after digging up an ancient bone that dates back 13,000 years. The fossil belongs to an Ice Age woolly mammoth and was unearthed by the inquisitive pup in his […]

6y ago

Scientists Are Attempting To Clone The Extinct 40,000-Year-Old Foal That Was Recently Discovered In Siberia

Scientists Are Attempting To Clone The Extinct 40,000-Year-Old Foal That Was Recently Discovered In Siberia

With the recent discovery in Siberia of a 40,000-year-old Paleolithic foal, scientists are now attempting to clone the extinct animal and bring its species back from the dead. As the Inquisitr recently reported, the ancient baby horse was found buried in the permafrost of a Siberian crater in a place that is referred to as […]

6y ago

Woolly Mammoth Skeleton, Discovered In Siberia, Sold For $640,000 In France

Woolly Mammoth Skeleton, Discovered In Siberia, Sold For $640,000 In France

A skeleton of a woolly mammoth, found in Siberia about 10 years ago, was sold for €548,000 ($640,000; £483,000) at a French auction on December 16, 2017. This skeleton was nearly 10,000 years old, according to the BBC, and was in very good shape. France-based auctioneer Claude Aguttes revealed that most of the bones (nearly […]

7y ago

Woolly Mammoth Extinction Findings: Can They Help Preserve Endangered Species?

Woolly Mammoth Extinction Findings: Can They Help Preserve Endangered Species?

The woolly mammoth went extinct about four centuries ago, lasting about six thousand years longer than their other mammoth relatives did. And with scientists having come up with some new theories on why these modern elephant ancestors faded away from existence, the hope is that the findings could help improve conservation efforts for endangered species […]

7y ago

Rogue Scientist Plans To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth In Two Years

Rogue Scientist Plans To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth In Two Years

A geneticist from Harvard University plans to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth in two years by combing key genetic traits of the extinct creature with DNA from an endangered Asian elephant. Rogue geneticist George Church announced his plan to create a hybrid woolly mammoth embryo this week using advanced technology that doesn’t exist quite yet, […]

7y ago

Planned Woolly Mammoth Cloning Raises Ethical And Environmental Questions

Planned Woolly Mammoth Cloning Raises Ethical And Environmental Questions

The fictional scenario created by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park might become a reality if woolly mammoth cloning efforts prove to be successful. But the ethics of such gene editing procedures and warnings on their potential environmental consequences are shrouding the ambitious Harvard research project. According to a report from The Guardian, a team of […]

7y ago

Woolly Mammoth To Be Resurrected? Scientists Working On ‘De-Extinction’ Effort

Woolly Mammoth To Be Resurrected? Scientists Working On ‘De-Extinction’ Effort

The woolly mammoth went extinct around four millennia ago, according to the Guardian. However, while it may sound as though it is straight out of a Jurassic Park script, scientists now claim to be close to “resurrecting the ancient beast in a revised form.” According to the Guardian, when it comes to creatures that are […]

7y ago

Michigan Farmer Unearths Rare, Ancient Woolly Mammoth Skeleton

Michigan Farmer Unearths Rare, Ancient Woolly Mammoth Skeleton

A Michigan farmer has unearthed an unlikely find — an more than 11,000-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton. The Michigan farmer said he was digging in his field when he came upon the ancient remains of a butchered woolly mammoth, according to The Gawker. “It was probably a rib bone that came up. We thought it was […]

9y ago

Woolly Mammoth With Liquid Blood Goes On Display Saturday

Woolly Mammoth With Liquid Blood Goes On Display Saturday

A woolly mammoth some 39,000 years old has arrived in an exhibition hall in Yokohama, Japan to be put on public display from July 13 until September 16. UPDATE: We now have video of the woolly mammoth being unboxed in Japan. Go down to the bottom to see it. This well-preserved woolly mammoth female, now […]

11y ago

Fisherman Finds Mammoth Tooth In New Hampshire

Fisherman Finds Mammoth Tooth In New Hampshire

A scallop fisherman netted an ancient mammoth tooth this week in New Hampshire. On Tuesday, Mike Anderson discovered the woolly mammoth tooth in a pile of scallop shells that were caught in the nets of his fishing boat, the Rimrack. It’s not the first time Anderson and his wife Padi have come across unusual items […]

11y ago

Mastodon Tooth Found By Fisherman

Mastodon Tooth Found By Fisherman

A fisherman in Karnes City was hoping to catch dinner in the San Antonio River. Instead, he caught a mastodon tooth. Davy Villanueva claims that he found the mastodon tooth during a fishing trip. Villanueva says that he was standing in about a foot of water when he noticed something strange in the water. The […]

12y ago

Woolly Mammoth Captured on Film in Siberia [Video]

Woolly Mammoth Captured on Film in Siberia [Video]

Shocking news from Siberia. The woolly mammoth is not extinct. A government engineer captured a massive woolly mammoth taking a stroll through a river in Siberia. Of course, several people are calling the video a hoax. LiveScience reports that there are two things that are a little fishy about the woolly mammoth video. First, it […]

13y ago

The Woolly Mammoth Returns: Scientists to Clone Ancient Beast Within 5-Years

The Woolly Mammoth Returns: Scientists to Clone Ancient Beast Within 5-Years

Five years from now you’ll be able to see a woolly mammoth in the flesh. Scientists, who recently discovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone, say that they’ll be able to clone the animal in less than five years. According to Discovery News, the woolly mammoth cloning project will be a join effort […]

13y ago

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