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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study

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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study
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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice Age

clock-iconJune 3, 2026

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119-Year-Old Discovery From Foul Air Cave Solves A Giant Palaeontology PuzzleAn artist's illustration of a Giant long-beaked echidna (Megalibgwilia owenii) wandering around ancient Australia.

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119-Year-Old Discovery From Foul Air Cave Solves A Giant Palaeontology PuzzleAn artist's illustration of a Giant long-beaked echidna (Megalibgwilia owenii) wandering around ancient Australia.
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119-Year-Old Discovery From Foul Air Cave Solves A Giant Palaeontology Puzzle

clock-iconApril 17, 2026

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Fossils Of Ice Age Giant Tortoise And Ancient Armadillo Relative Found In Central Texas Cave For First TimeA photo showing the back of a man wearing a wetsuit, a hardhat with a torch and a snorkel crouching by an underground stream in a cave. The water is clear and shallow, showing a rocky floor below the surface.

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Fossils Of Ice Age Giant Tortoise And Ancient Armadillo Relative Found In Central Texas Cave For First TimeA photo showing the back of a man wearing a wetsuit, a hardhat with a torch and a snorkel crouching by an underground stream in a cave. The water is clear and shallow, showing a rocky floor below the surface.
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Fossils Of Ice Age Giant Tortoise And Ancient Armadillo Relative Found In Central Texas Cave For First Time

clock-iconMarch 27, 2026

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If Stone-Age Hunters Wiped Out Mammoths, Does That Mean Humans Are Destructive By Nature?Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer and mammoth

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If Stone-Age Hunters Wiped Out Mammoths, Does That Mean Humans Are Destructive By Nature?Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer and mammoth
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If Stone-Age Hunters Wiped Out Mammoths, Does That Mean Humans Are Destructive By Nature?

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Why Does Africa Have So Many Of The World's Largest Land Animals?Shot from above an elephant heard is in and around a river. A four by four vehicle is halfway up on the right side of the image.

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Why Does Africa Have So Many Of The World's Largest Land Animals?Shot from above an elephant heard is in and around a river. A four by four vehicle is halfway up on the right side of the image.
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Why Does Africa Have So Many Of The World's Largest Land Animals?

clock-iconNovember 11, 2025
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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost lead author of this study,Gennady Boeskorov, with the record-breaking horn, taken at the Mammoth Museum (Yakutsk

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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost lead author of this study,Gennady Boeskorov, with the record-breaking horn, taken at the Mammoth Museum (Yakutsk
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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost

clock-iconOctober 8, 2025
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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil RecordSkeletal mount of Zygomaturus trilobus at the Melbourne Museum

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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil RecordSkeletal mount of Zygomaturus trilobus at the Melbourne Museum
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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil Record

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Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years AgoA black and white illustration of some of South America's megafauna by a pool of water. The image shows an giant sloth and an elephant by the water's edge while a Palaeolama walks through the ankle high water. In the background, a leopard like animal watches the others while sitting in a tree.

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Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years AgoA black and white illustration of some of South America's megafauna by a pool of water. The image shows an giant sloth and an elephant by the water's edge while a Palaeolama walks through the ankle high water. In the background, a leopard like animal watches the others while sitting in a tree.
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Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago

clock-iconFebruary 21, 2025
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Woolly Rhinos Had A Hump On Their Back, Frozen Mummy RevealsWoolly rhinoceros

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Woolly Rhinos Had A Hump On Their Back, Frozen Mummy RevealsWoolly rhinoceros
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Woolly Rhinos Had A Hump On Their Back, Frozen Mummy Reveals

clock-iconNovember 8, 2024
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Intact Skin, Hair, and Tissues Found On 32,400-Year-Old Juvenile Woolly Rhino MummyPaleoart of a woolly rhino.

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Intact Skin, Hair, and Tissues Found On 32,400-Year-Old Juvenile Woolly Rhino MummyPaleoart of a woolly rhino.
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Intact Skin, Hair, and Tissues Found On 32,400-Year-Old Juvenile Woolly Rhino Mummy

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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years AgoPrehistoric armadillo butchery

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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years AgoPrehistoric armadillo butchery
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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years Ago

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Ice Age Woolly Rhino Genome Reconstructed From Fossilized Hyena PoopAtrist's impression of a woolly rhinoceros

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Ice Age Woolly Rhino Genome Reconstructed From Fossilized Hyena PoopAtrist's impression of a woolly rhinoceros
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Ice Age Woolly Rhino Genome Reconstructed From Fossilized Hyena Poop

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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Giant Elephants 125,000 Years AgoPalaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant

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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Giant Elephants 125,000 Years AgoPalaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant
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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Giant Elephants 125,000 Years Ago

clock-iconAugust 26, 2023
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Ancient Megafauna Were Likely Killed By Human-Set Fires 13,000 Years AgoA photo of La Brea Tar Pits, California, showing a replica prehistoric elephant being sucked into the tar.

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Ancient Megafauna Were Likely Killed By Human-Set Fires 13,000 Years AgoA photo of La Brea Tar Pits, California, showing a replica prehistoric elephant being sucked into the tar.
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Ancient Megafauna Were Likely Killed By Human-Set Fires 13,000 Years Ago

clock-iconAugust 22, 2023
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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Elephants Twice The Size Of Today’s GiantsPalaeoloxodon antiquus recreation in an outdoor park

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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Elephants Twice The Size Of Today’s GiantsPalaeoloxodon antiquus recreation in an outdoor park
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How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Elephants Twice The Size Of Today’s Giants

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