Woolly mammoths are one of the many animals that became extinct about 4,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths are distant relatives of today's elephants, were about the same size, and were covered with thick, shaggy hair, which is why they are called ''woolly.''...
The study challenges the prevailing view that the Ice Age "mammoth steppe" (which fed the Ice Age megafauna – giant mammals includingwoolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, bison and horse) was grass-dominated. Instead, the DNA analysis reveals that the dry steppe tundra on which the animals lived...
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Homo habilis represented a major stage in human evolution because this ancient hominid was the first to actually make stone tools. Homo habilis did not just find sharp rocks and use them, it planned ahead, learned, and taught the skills for tool production....
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Scientists know that over the past 40,000 years, most of Earth'smegafauna– that is, animals human-size or larger – have gone extinct. Woolly mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and countless others no longer roam the planet. What's remarkable about the megafaunal crash in Madagascar is that it ...
according to Ross MacPhee, Ph.D., curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. From Africa, the mammoths migrated throughout Eurasia and North America. Their evolution continued over millions of years, eventually producing the woolly mammoth,M. primigenius, beginning roughly 250...
Years ago, I was astonished to discover that a chicken’s egg comes out of the same hole, called the vent, as a chicken’s poop. Originally, I thought that if a chicken’s egg comes out of the same hole as its poop, that was a seriously bad design. Chicken poop is gross and sme...
Panic disorder is one of the least understood types of anxiety by those that have never experienced an anxiety attack. People picture others who have these attacks as being too nervous and experiencing a lot of irrational fears. In reality, anxiety attacks are much more physical, and the sympto...
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