This Tiny Marsupial Was Known Only From Ice Age Fossils — Until 1966, When It Was Found In A Ski Lodge
The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its ...
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The Siberian Bone Hunters Diving for Ice Age Mammoth Fossils
In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land ... Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries.
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Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts
If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...
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Ice Age Fossils Of Bear And Wolf-Like Species Discovered In Underwater Cave Off The Coast Of Mexico
The fact that the last Ice Age resulted in rising sea levels was ... have been successfully secured thus far. All recovered ...
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Ice Age Europe Revealed Teeth Fossils That Indicate Population Decline, Climate Change Affected Demography
An international team of researchers developed a new method based on a machine learning algorithm to analyze a large dataset of human fossils from the European Ice Age. The decline in population ...
‘Old Stump’ in Texas Turns Out to Be Incredibly Rare Mammoth Tusk
While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant ...
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Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last ice age
An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...
Mammoth tusk found in gravel quarry in New Mexico
On March 21, 2025 a Hunter stumbled over a stump in Texas visiting the O2 Ranch. The stump turned out to be a Mammoth tusk buried in a creek bed. In August 2024, Mississippi documented its first ...
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Fascinated by fossils, Minnesota man builds a small-town science museum bone by bone
Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...
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Top things to do in Tampa Bay this week: Sting at reggae fest, Ice Age fossils
On Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16, the Florida State Fairgrounds will go back in time as the Tampa Bay Fossil Club presents the 38th annual FossilFest: The Ice Age Returns. Florida’s largest ...
Updated physical model helps reconstruct sudden, dramatic sea level rise after last ice age
Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...