2010-09-15 - Johnson City, United States.
A mammoth skeleton is among the finds the director of East Tennessee State University´s paleontology center unearthed during a summer of Ice Age excavations in Saltville, Virginia. ETSU´s Blaine Schubert said the find represents the best potential evidence that the giant bears, which were up to 5 1/2 feet at the shoulder when on all fours, scavenged on mammoths.
2010-09-10 - Jersey City, United States.
When the Field Museum’s traveling exhibition Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age comes to the Liberty Science Center next month, it will bring with it the celebrated 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth Lyuba. Lyuba, considered to be the best preserved and most complete mammoth ever, was discovered in northern Siberia three years ago by a reindeer herder, and named after his wife
2010-09-10 - Anhui, China.
A 3.34-meter-long ancient ivory fossil were found at Zhang Changying Village, Mengcheng County of Anhui Province on the afternoon of Sept 8. After primary certification, researchers believe the ivory fossil belonged to an ancient elephant that lived about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. The fossil was buried 5 meters under the ground, and the thickest part of it reaches 22 centimeters. And judging from the ivory, it could be an adult elephant.
2010-09-07 - Madrid, Spain.
A team made up of members of the University of Oviedo (UO) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have gathered together all findings of the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros and the reindeer in the Iberian Peninsula to show that, although in small numbers, these big mammals -- prehistoric indicators of cold climates -- already lived in this territory some 150,000 years ago.
2010-07-21 - Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Scientists in Brazil say a fossil of an elephant´s tooth found in the Amazon jungle proves the presence of pachyderms in South America some 45,000 years ago, a report said on Tuesday. The fossil was discovered at the start of the 1990s by a precious metals researcher, but a university student only noticed its laminate structure years later.
2010-07-16 - Los Angeles, United States. Jeff Favre
In recent years, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles had been getting a bit long in the tooth — and we’re not talking about the saber-toothed tiger fossils in its collections. No, the museum’s building was nearly a century old, and it was in need of a serious makeover. Thanks to an extensive series of just-wrapped renovations, the structure built in 1913 is looking better than ever. But what good is a structural facelift if there’s nothing new to see inside?
2010-07-02 - Brighton, United States. Mike Mueller
When a crew digging ground for a swimming pool found the jawbone of an extinct beast in Jim Leyden´s yard, the Tipton County homeowner confessed that he was disoriented. "I grew up in New Jersey. I might find a body, but not a prehistoric animal," Leyden said of the discovery at his Brighton home.
2010-06-11 - Blora, Indonesia.
The residents of the small town of Blora, 105 kilometers from Semarang, were surprised earlier this year when the most intact fossilized elephant skeleton ever found in Indonesia was unearthed nearby, a senior archeologist said on Thursday. The recovery of the skeleton was completed last month and it has been taken to the Geology Museum in Bandung, said Suroso, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s director of archeological heritage.
2010-06-04 - Chicago, United States.
This summer, visitors can beat Chicago’s heat and chill out while ogling colossal bones at the Field Museum. The exhibit, called “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age,” focuses on these ancestors of the elephant that roamed Europe, Asia and North America during the Ice Age. Life-size models, fossil tusks, skulls and video installations highlight the differences between mammoths and their shorter, stockier cousins, the mastodons.
2010-06-02 - Kenosha, United States.
“At the Edge of the Ice: Mammoths, Mastodons and More” opens Saturday, June 5, at the Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Ave., and continues through March 2011. The exhibit explores the history of mammoths and mastodons in Kenosha County during the Ice Age. The exhibit highlights new research, data and scientific evidence, which has changed views of the early people of the Americas since the excavation of the Schaefer Mammoth in Kenosha County almost 20 years ago. The exhibit features mammoth...
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