2006-06-29 - Kent, United Kingdom.
Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat, say archaeologists. Remains of a single adult elephant surrounded by stone tools were found in northwest Kent during work on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Scientists believe hunters used the tools to cut off the meat, after killing the animal with wooden spears.
2006-06-14 - Casper, United States. LAURIE CREASY
Casper College presents Dee the Mammoth, named for Dee Zimmerschied, the bulldozer operator who found him, a new fossil find about 40 miles north of Casper and what may be one of the largest mammoth fossils around. The center of one of his vertebrae is nine inches in diameter. Compare that with the six-inch center of the largest specimen at South Dakota's Mammoth Site, a 50-year-old male, and you've got one enormous animal. Dee munched his last grass in the Powder River Basin between 10,000 to 2...
2005-10-20 - ANN ARBOR, United States. Nancy Ross-Flanigan
Details about the life of a young woolly mammoth that died thousands of years ago are emerging from a study of the animal's fossil tusk. One intriguing finding: the calf nursed from its mother six or more years, apparently depending on the calorie-rich milk to survive in harsh, arctic conditions. A research team from the University of Michigan, Wrangel Island State Preserve and the University of Minnesota will present the results of their tusk analysis Saturday (Oct. 22) at a meeting of the Soci...
2005-06-14 - Söderkulla, Finland. Eirik Granqvist
The first mammoth skeleton to be mounted was that of "Adams mammoth" found at the shores of Lena in the late seventeen hundred. It got the left tusk to the right side and the right to the left! Looking very funny and giving model for plenty of very rongly drawed and reconstructed mammoths. Adams mammoth was shown like this in the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg until just after the second world war when the tusks where moved to their correct sides!
2005-04-18 - Wyoming, United States. Bjorn Carey
One million years ago, elephants and their cousins roamed the five major continents of the earth. Then humans came along. Today elephants can be found only in portions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.There is a long-running debate over what drove elephants to extinction in some parts of the world and completely wiped other two other proboscideans, mammoths and mastodons. The two most argued hypotheses for their decline are climatic changes and over-hunting by humans. A recent archaeological...
2005-04-09 - LOS ANGELES, United States. Catherine Saillant and Gregory W. Griggs
Construction crews have uncovered the skeleton of a fossilized mammoth believed to be older than the ancient beasts found at the La Brea Tar Pits. Larry Agenbroad, one of the nation's foremost mammoth experts, called the find "spectacular," especially if, as he suspects, it turns out to be of the rare meridionalis species.
2005-01-24 - Clacton, United Kingdom. Metro
He might not have a worn a Burberry cap or driven an Escort XR3i - but Essex man was alive and well 500,000 years ago. Even then, he had a tough guy image and was fighting other tribes - and elephants. He might even have broken away from mainstream society by using tools similar to Stanley knives to slash prey to death. Archaeologists have found stone blades in Clacton near the remains of a giant elephant - one of a number of large species in ancient Britain's warm climate. 'The tools were like ...
2005-01-12 - ST. LOUIS, United States. TERRY HILLIG, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Students at Principia College in Elsah don't have to trek hundreds or thousands of miles to participate in one of the country's most significant paleontological digs. In fact, they don't even have to leave campus. The 17,500-year-old bones of a woolly mammoth known affectionately as "Benny" (after the man who found him) are being carefully excavated in the middle of the Principia campus, only yards from dormitories and academic buildings.
2004-01-11 - Bhubaneswar, India. Jatindra Dash, Newkerala.com
A team of archaeologists has uncovered the remains of an elephant believed to be 500 years old from a fort in Orissa. The team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) found the remains at the Barabati fort at Cuttack town, 26 km from here. The skeleton was found two metres below the surface during the excavation of the fort's 102 acres of land, said P.K. Dwibedi, in charge of the ASI's office here.
2003-05-12 - Cheyenne, United States. Bruce Bailey, University of Nebraska State Museum
In June, we received a call from Mike Spaeth of Cheyenne County, reporting the discovery of a large fossil bone protruding from a stream bank. We arrived and uncovered not a dinosaur bone, but a complete lower jaw of the four-tusked elephant Amebelodon! This is the first skull, and only the second complete jaw (the first was collected in 1927) of Amebelodon known from Nebraska.
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