#mammoths

#archaeology #mammoths #AncientHumans

The remains of 5 mammoths have been found in Austria. Interestingly the remains of three included, dismembered but intact, tusks of the animals. It is thought that the tusks were being used to create ivory spear heads. the find is helping archaeologists to better understand how humans and Mammoths lived just before the peak of the last Ice Age. The mammoths were butchered using stone tools. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mammoths-butchered-ivory-tusks-unearthed-austria/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my painting of two fighting Columbian mammoths, they will become locked together and die together.

This book would make a great Christmas gift! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Mammoths #WoollyMammoth

#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse:
The Skeptics Guide #998 - Aug 24 2024

Quickie with Steve: Killing #Mammoths; News Items: #Water on #Exoplanets, #Mpox, Darkling #Beetles, #Moon #Gravity Assist, Luminescent #Solar_Concentrators; Who's That Noisy; From Tik Tok: The Sage Wall; #Science or #Fiction

Webseite der Episode: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu

Mediendatei: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/skepticsguide/skepticast2024-08-24.mp3

Rewriting History: Ice Age Hunters Used Planted Pikes, Not Throwing Spears, To Bring Down Mammoths
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-history-ice-age-hunters-used-planted-pikes-not-throwing-spears-to-bring-down-mammoths/ #archaeology #hunting #clovispoints #mammoths #megafauna #pike

@KateShaw has released a new episode, full of interesting updates. Long distance migrations of Painted Lady Butterflies, the origin of Delcourt's giant gecko, mammoth DNA, the longest known worm, and many more. Also the "lava bear".

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/07/15/episode-389-updates-7-and-the-lava-bear/

a great episode.

#reptiles
#worms
#bears
#butterflies
#insects
#mammoths

Frozen mammoth skin retained its chromosome structure - Enlarge (credit: LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

One ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2036352 #ancientdna #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #biology

Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneck - Enlarge / An artist's conception of one of the last mammoths of Wrangel... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034436 #wrangelisland #ancientdna #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #biology

Apparently, an adult wooly mammoth needed ~400 pounds of food *daily* for sustenance.

That would have required large contiguous grasslands and water sources for a herd to survive.

Just saying:

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/09/world/woolly-mammoth-elephant-stem-cells-scn/index.html

#science #experiments #mammoths #nature

Colossal Biosciences says it has put elephant skin cells into an embryonic state. This is an early technical step in their bid to breed Asian elephants that have traits of extinct woolly #mammoths such as shaggy hair. #Biology #MichaelCrichton https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00670-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=86c083b3fe-briefing-dy-20240307&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-86c083b3fe-50179668

Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step - Enlarge / Elephant stem cells turned out to be a hassle to generate. (c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008289 #de-extinction #elephants #stemcells #colossal #mammoths #science #biology

Love #mammoths?

You don't want to miss next week's #BCST with Love Dalén. Tune in live Thursday February 8 @ 11 am MST to watch his presentation "a genomic perspective on mammoth evolution and extinction".

Register on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3517068377642/WN_wQZ22nPbQEy0yZzXCyL-wg

Register on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/syiLJAwBmxKfKjJL/?mibextid=9VsGKo

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 2: Large herbivores like #elephants #mammoths #mastodons share one big problem: human hunters. New evidence shows even #Neanderthals hunted and butchered elephants, so time for a big picture feature on this.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-long-history-of-elephants-suffering.html

#science #conservation #megafauna

An Alaskan mammoth and ancient humans frequented the same areas - Enlarge (credit: Aunt_Spray / GETTY IMAGES)

A single tusk is a... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1996991 #paleontology #isotopes #mammoths #science #biology #alaska

Have to share this here: dreamed this night that the town i lived in was about to be hit by a stampede of mammoths! We ended up all gathering in the town hall as the strongest building, the first mammoths were starting to run past, you could hear the big stampede coming and the ground shaking, then I woke up #Mammoths #Mastodon dream (and maybe also a climate change one)

The CIA Just Invested In Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology.

While skeptics doubt the prospects for de-extinction, the CIA’s venture capital firm deems powerful genetic manipulation tools worth the money.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/cia-extinction-woolly-mammoth-dna/ #CIA #Mammoths #technology

The Trees That Miss the Mammoths: Not actually new but a cool article about trees like the osage orange, the honey locust, and the Kentucky coffee tree, avocados too, and papayas, #trees that evolved to feed animals that are now extinct. #plants #extinction #mammoths https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

A new study warns the close similarities between the #tusks of #elephants and #mammoths poses threats to conservation and #environment efforts
Conservationists fear a rise in the buying and selling of mammoth tusks, known as the “ice ivory” trade, poses a new threat to elephants.
#Conservation #Environmental #Paleontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/con10132301.html