Tag Archives: Pleistocene extinctions

Oldest Human Hand Bone Found in Africa

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The oldest sample of a hand bone has gotten unearthed from a site in Africa. It consisted of the little finger of a left hand. The place where it got unearthed was the famous Olduvai Gorge in...

Woolly Mammoths Killed by Climate Change says Study

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Global warming is a process that has led to the extinction of past species in massive quantities. An analysis of the DNA record, carbon dating and geology of the earth by an international team led by...

Hot Science Summer: Sailing Spiders, Seahorse Tails and Mammoth DNA

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Summer is here in many parts of the world. While most of us a thinking about a vacation, scientists amaze us with incredible research results published over the first days of July. As Science news...

3.3 Million Old Stone Tools are Older Than Humans

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A new find of stone tools is changing the perception of species that lived before the first humans in the Home genus. A team of scientists discovered 3.3 million years old stone tools in Kenya. These...

2.8 Million Years Old Jawbone of First Human Discovered

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An ASU team of scientists found a partially intact jaw that lends credence to the presence of a very early version of the homonid species Homo in Ethiopia, Africa. The mandible portion was found by...

Female Mammoth with Blood Found Almost Intact

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The estimated age of the female mammoth was ten to fifteen thousand years. Dug up from the ice in a far off island in the Arctic, the currently extinct animal was so perfectly preserved that even the...