Showing posts with label prehistoric animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prehistoric animals. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Wooly Mammoth Extinction Pattern Has Been Mapped

›
Mammoth skull and tusks, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks. G.M. MacDonald Wooly Mammoth Extinction Mapped -- USA Today Good new, folks...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Giant Penguins

›
Giant penguins 'may have roamed New Zealand' Photo: Alamy Giant Penguins 'May Have Roamed New Zealand' -- The Telegraph Foss...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Prehistoric Bird Sets Wingspan Record

›
This graphic features a skeletal reconstruction as well as a life-like depiction of this prehistoric bird in flight. Click to enlarge this ...
Friday, September 10, 2010

What Killed The Mammoths? Alien Nanodiamonds May Hold The Answer

›
Wooly Mammoth Did nanodiamonds mean death for this mammoth and all his friends? Depends on which study you believe. Wikimedia Commons Fro...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Prehistoric Shark Attack Reconstructed

›
The skeleton of a dolphin, preserved for 4 million years, shows bite marks across its ribs from the shark attack that killed it. Credit: Gio...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Dino Extinction Brought Birds Back To Earth

›
Flightless birds owe their success to the demise of the dinosaurs. Credit: Wikimedia From Cosmos: SYDNEY: Large, flightless birds such as os...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Mystery of World's Biggest Beasts Possibly Solved

›
The primitive whale Mammalodon colliveri might have sucked up prey from seafloor mud, suggesting the origin of today's giant filter-feed...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

›
From Future Pundit: 10000 to 7600 year old woolly mammoth DNA was found frozen in Alaska tundra. So this begs the obvious question: Is the ...

Lost Giants: Did Mammoths Vanish Before, During And After Humans Arrived?

›
Image: PREHISTORIC MYSTERY: Mastodons feeding on black ash trees. The disappearance of such megafauna has perplexed scientists. COURTESY O...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Sophisticated Hunters Not To Blame For Driving Mammoths To Extinction

›
Giant animals such as the woolly mammoth were already facing extinction by the time humans had developed more lethal weapons. Photograph: Co...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Mammoth Dung Unravels Extinction

›
Mastadons and other megafauna left traces of dung in ancient lake beds. From The BBC: Mammoth dung has proven to be a source of prehistoric ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Study Paints Sabertooths as Relative Pussycats

›
The sabertooth cat may have been less aggressive than its feline cousin, the American lion, a new study says. Credit: National Park Service....
Monday, November 16, 2009

Starvation 'Wiped Out' Giant Deer

›
From The BBC: The giant deer, also known as the giant Irish deer or Irish elk, is one of the largest deer species that ever lived. Yet why t...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions

›
Painting of Smilodon from the American Museum of Natural History. (Credit: Charles R. Knight, 1905 / Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) From Sci...
Monday, October 5, 2009

Baby Mammoth Yields Secrets After 40,000 Years In Siberian Tundra

›
From Times Online: A baby woolly mammoth that died after being sucked into a muddy river bed 40,000 years ago has revealed more prehistoric ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Giant Prehistoric Kangaroos Wiped Out By Hungry Ice Age Hunters

›
Artist's illustration of the extinct Procoptodon goliah which roamed around Australia 45,000 years ago. (Artist Peter Trusler/Australian...