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Over 80% of prehistoric megaherbivores went extinct due to human activity and not climate change: Study
Recent studies have spotlighted the extinction or rapid decline of large mammals over the past 50,0…
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A near-perfect 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon's Klondike gold fields
A Yukon miner found the ice age animal. The most complete mummified mammoth in North America still …
Bethany Dawson
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Treasure hunters are flocking to NYC in search of mammoth bones after a Joe Rogan podcast guest claimed a boxcar of them were dropped in the East River 80 years ago
"I'm going to start a bone rush," John Reeves, an Alaskan gold miner said during a December 30 epis…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A new study reveals how the last woolly mammoths died out 4,000 years ago. That's after the Egyptians had built the pyramids.
A previous study found that the mammoth inhabitants on the other similarly isolated island of St. P…
Aylin Woodward
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth
The woolly mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, and in reality, the scientists wouldn't actually …
Erin Brodwin
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Newly-unearthed Mammoth remains could help reveal when humans first arrived in the Americas
"What's so interesting about the Bristle site is that there's a mammoth with evidence of human asso…
Lindsay Dodgson
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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal
Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists ho…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
Giant mammals like dire wolves and saber-tooth cats were once common in North America. But these me…
Jenny McGrath
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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history
Homo sapien bones in a German cave prove early humans occupied Europe 47,500 years ago alongside Ne…
Ellyn Lapointe
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A respectable senior with no criminal record had massive $6 million hoard of stolen watches, gems and jewelry, say police
Police in Bologna, north Italy seized 1.65 tons of loot stashed in several properties that had been…
Bethany Dawson,Marta Biino
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A California man set a new world record after making 2,995 visits to Disneyland, going every single day for more than 8 years
Jeff Reitz from Huntington Beach in California made the consecutive visits to Disney's theme park i…
Stephanie Stacey
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Parents are scrambling to find children's Tylenol, Motrin, and Advil as medicine shortages plague stores like Walgreens and CVS
Stores like CVS, Target, and Walgreens have all put limits on the amount of children's medications …
Ben Tobin
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Newly discovered fossil footprints show humans were in North America thousands of years earlier than we thought
Researchers once thought humans couldn't have migrated down from Siberia into North America during …
Aylin Woodward
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More than 2.5 miles of cliff paintings found hidden in the Amazon rainforest show ancient hunter-gatherers killing Ice Age creatures
The paintings are at least 11,800 years old, and depict ancient Amazonians killing mastodons and in…
Susie Neilson
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New analysis of a saber-toothed cat fossil reveals the ancient animals were ruthless, highly skilled hunters
By extracting DNA from the thigh bone of an ancient saber-toothed cat, scientists gleaned new insig…
Aylin Woodward
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Humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than we thought, discoveries show — which suggests they came by boat
When and how the first people arrived in North America is up for debate. New studies suggest the co…
Aylin Woodward
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One of the greatest extinction mysteries in history is still unsolved
Shapiro writes that it's hard to pin the mammoth's end on warmth alone. While mammoths were the mos…
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Top five Ashes knocks in the last decade
There is nothing quite like the drama of the Ashes. English and Australian players are known to ge…
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How humans evolved to become the best runners on the planet
In fact, our IT band can store 15-20 times more elastic energy than a chimpanzee's similar body par…
Uma Sharma,Shira Polan
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A treasure trove of sabre-tooth tiger and dire wolf bones show how prehistoric predators made their kills
Sabre-tooth cats, however, seemed to be experts at avoiding injuries to their heads and to those ma…