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Post by another specialist on Dec 2, 2008 14:17:48 GMT
Just a suggestion: Why not open own threads for every local holocene mammoth extinction, one for those from Wrangel and one for the St. Paul Island mammoths? It has been done. |
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Post by another specialist on Dec 2, 2008 14:18:14 GMT
Just a suggestion: Why not open own threads for every local holocene mammoth extinction, one for those from Wrangel and one for the St. Paul Island mammoths? It has been done. |
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Post by another specialist on Dec 2, 2008 14:28:58 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jun 19, 2009 8:40:19 GMT
New evidence found on extinct animals June 19, 2009 Edition 1 Marlowe Hood Woolly mammoths survived in Britain until 14 000 years ago, around 6 000 years longer than previously thought, according to a study released today. The study should settle a raging debate over the extinction of mammoths in Europe, unleashed when fossils from an adult male and four youngsters were found in the central English county of Shropshire in 1986, its author believes. Conventional wisdom has held that mammoths died out in northwestern Europe some 21 000 years ago during a deep freeze called "the last glacial maximum". But the new research, published in Britain's Geological Journal, proves that the giant tuskers of prehistory hung on for at least another six millennia. "Our new radiocarbon dating of the Shropshire mammoths shows they returned to Britain and survived until around 14 000 years ago," said Adrian Lister, a professor at the Natural History Museum in London and author of the study. Previous techniques used for dating the fossils were not very accurate, he explained. The giant mammals flourished during the initial phase of the last Ice Age but, despite their "woolly" coats, could not cope with its bitterest chill. The British mammoths headed south and east towards slightly warmer climes, crossing a land bridge to continental Europe. The mammoths came back when the glacial maximum eased and then survived until the end of the Ice Age, when encroaching forests gradually destroyed their food supply, Lister said. "Mammoths were basically a grass-eating animal. During the Ice Age, the environment across most of Europe was essentially grassland because it was too cold for trees," he said. As it got warmer, trees spread northward and covered the whole of Europe, robbing these animals of their habitat. - Sapa-AFP www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5041778 |
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Post by surroundx on Apr 22, 2011 13:44:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2011 15:04:45 GMT
I never heard of this before, but found that.: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423413/?tool=pmcentrezSo, it seems, that there were at least two different populations, which may have been subspecies or even distinct species. But I couldn't find any new species name yet, or which of the two died out at which time. |
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Post by miki2502989 on May 3, 2011 22:07:49 GMT
many great articles guys,tnx a lot
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Post by surroundx on Jul 11, 2012 10:23:05 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 4, 2012 0:21:52 GMT
Here is the Extinct episode about the Wooly Mammoth |
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Post by surroundx on Dec 4, 2013 11:36:12 GMT
"Lastly, despite popular depictions of red-haired and/or uniformly coloured mammoths, a closer examination of pigmentation reveals that mammoth coats may have exhibited a mottled/variegated appearance and that their ‘true’ colours were not the vivid red/orange colour often depicted in reconstructions." Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379113004320 |
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 10:35:01 GMT
Roca, Alfred L. (2015). Evolution: The Island of Misfit Mammoths. Current Biology 25(13): R549-R551. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Aug 30, 2015 14:01:49 GMT
Takahashi, K., Wei, G., Uno, H., Yoneda, M., Jin, C., Sun, C., Zhang, S. and Zhong, B. (2007). AMS 14C chronology of the world's southernmost woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.). Quaternary Science Reviews 26(7-8): 954-957. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Sept 19, 2015 6:25:14 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Dec 13, 2015 1:01:59 GMT
"The Earth Extinct Fauna (in Japanese)" by Tadaaki Imaizumi (1986)  |
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Post by Melanie on Dec 18, 2015 22:05:54 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jan 17, 2016 10:43:39 GMT
Pitulko, Vladimir V. et al. (2016). Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains. Science 351(6270): 260-263. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Mar 13, 2016 10:13:12 GMT
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Post by surroundx on May 23, 2016 13:16:33 GMT
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Post by surroundx on May 23, 2016 16:55:43 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Jun 18, 2016 0:51:05 GMT
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