Ice-age genome project faces cold storage

AFTER a tantalisingly successful run at sequencing parts of the extinct woolly mammoth's genome, the project is now stalled for lack of funds.

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Findings show how first Europeans transported meat over long distances A new study reveals that Neanderthals survived the often chilly conditions of Northern Europe by wearing tailored clothing and drying chunks of big game meat — like that of mammoth.

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According to new radiocarbon dating evidence, woolly mammoths lived in Britain as recently as 14,000 years ago. Dr. Adrian Lister acquired new dates for mammoth bones that had been excavated in 1986 in the English county of Shropshire.

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Woolly mammoths lived in Britain as recently as 14,000 years ago, according to new radiocarbon dating evidence.

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Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces.

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At least once in Earth's history, global warming ended quickly, and scientists have long wondered why. Scientists found microscopic diamonds in the black layer of rock at Murray Springs in Arizona.

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For the first time, scientists are talking about resurrecting an extinct species as if this longtime staple of science fiction were a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.

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Japanese scientists cloned mice that had been frozen 16 years and whose cells had burst, according to Reuters. Since the mice were not particularly well preserved, the researchers say their nuclear transfer techniques "could be used to 'resurrect' animals" such as mammoths.

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A giant tooth was found by two paleontologists in the wreckage of a Texan home destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

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The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.

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They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction – they ate their own dung.

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You might say it was a case of kicking the woolly mammoth while it was down.

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The trade, bolstered recently by global warming, which has melted the tundra and exposed more frozen remains, is not only legal but actually endorsed by conservationists.

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Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. Seven tusks dating to some 35,000 years ago all show signs of having being peppered with meteorite fragments.

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Today the only place to see woolly mammoths and people side-by-side is on The Flintstones or in the movies. But researchers are on the verge of piecing together complete genomes of long-dead species such as Neandertals and mammoths.

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Bodies of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday.

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