Posts Tagged ‘mammoths’

Man Whose Ancestors Wrestled Woolly Mammoths With Their Bare Hands To Survive Gets Crippling Anxiety When He Has To Make Small Talk With A Hairdresser

Man Whose Ancestors Wrestled Woolly Mammoths With Their Bare Hands To Survive Gets Crippling Anxiety When He Has To Make Small Talk With A Hairdresser SAN DIEGO, CA—Local man Landon Netherton is descended from early man, who, approximately 6,000 years ago, had to wrestle woolly mammoths to get food and furs and tusks just in […]

First Humans in New England May Have Met and Hunted Woolly Mammoths

Did humans and woolly mammoths share the same territory near the end of the last Ice Age in what is now the Northeastern United States? A  new study  from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has given scientists reason to believe they might have, at least for a short time.  Dusting Off Woolly Mammoth Bone […]

Why are so many fossiles of woolly mammoths young males?

     Scientists studying the fossils of ancient woolly mammoths believe they’ve cracked the mystery of why so many are young males – and the answer is surprisingly close to home. It appears that woolly mammoths and today’s young males have at least one thing in common – without their moms, they were destined to wander […]

Don’t feel bad, woolly mammoths needed their moms just like today’s men

It appears that woolly mammoths and today’s young males have at least one thing in common – without their moms, they were destined to wander the world alone before succumbing to an accidental death. Many of the clueless young male mammoths got themselves into risky situations, and were swept into rivers, or fell through ice […]

‘Hypercarnivores’ kept massive ancient herbivores in check

A pack of saber-tooth cats (Smilodon) fight with adult Colombian mammoths over a juvenile mammoth they’ve felled. A new analysis by a team of biologists concludes that ‘hypercarnivores’ such as these working in concert could have taken down juveniles of the largest herbivores. Credit: Mauricio Anton When the largest modern-day plant-eaters—elephants—are confined to too small […]

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