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Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction – study
The Courier· 6 days agoExperts say the findings indicate the animals were not doomed to go extinct for genetic reasons and...
Did inbreeding cause the woolly mammoth’s extinction? Our research suggests it was more sudden than...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoThe last mammoth population lived on Wrangel Island, a small island off the Siberian coast, until...
The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths
New York Times· 6 days agoThe species survived on an island north of Siberia for thousands of years, scientists reported, but were most likely plagued by genetic abnormalities....
Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths
Reuters· 6 days agoAbout 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island...
Two Killer Asteroids Are Flying by Earth, and You May Be Able to See One
The New York Times via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoThis week, two asteroids — one big enough to destroy a city, and the other so large it could end...
Two Killer Asteroids Are Flying by Earth, and You May Be Able to See One
New York Times· 6 days agoThe smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by our planet within the distance to the moon. Many more rocky and icy shards just miss the planet, and often squeeze between Earth and the moon.
The death of poets – Tony Delaney on James Clarence Mangan, John Keegan and the cholera epidemic of...
The Irish Times· 7 days agoJames Clarence Mangan of Fishamble Street, Dublin, and John Keegan of Shanahoe in Co Laois. At that...