Quaternary
Canadian gold miners find rare mummified baby woolly mammoth
Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada's far north have made a rare discovery, digging up the mummified remains of a near complete baby woolly mammoth.
Members of the local Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation named the calf Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal."
What you need to know about Mammoth de-extinction
After 10,000 years of extinction, this is when woolly mammoths will walk the Earth again
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Human traces dating back 14,000 years found in İzmir
Archaeological excavations carried out in a cave in the Dikili district of İzmir have unearthed 14,000-year-old stone tools and bones from the Late Paleolithic (Epipalaeolithic) period.
Turkish and German scientists, who carried out the works in the area, revealed that the cave was also used as a cult center dedicated to the mother goddess Kybele.
Study reveals footsteps of a woolly mammoth
Walking the equivalent of twice around the world during a life-lasting 28 years, one wooly mammoth whose steps have been traced by researchers has proven the huge beast was a long-distance wanderer.
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President of Hospital doctors Pagoni expressed her concerns over ICU capacity
She said the conditions in hospitals were dire
Peloponnese village to host new paleontology museum
The Peloponnese is set to get its first museum of paleontology and natural history, with a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for Saturday morning in the village of Isioma, on the outskirts of Megalopoli in Arcadia.
Traces of Neandertals found in Aegean
Findings from 200,000 years ago that have been discovered during Sürmecik excavations, which were initiated after fossils found in the Aegean province of Uşak's Banaz district, are expected to shed light on the lifestyle of Neanderthal people who lived in the Paleolithic age.
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Humans lived in North America 130,000 years ago
Prehistoric humans — perhaps Neanderthals or another lost species — occupied what is now California some 130,000 years ago, a team of scientists reported on Wednesday.
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Humans walked and hunted on the Arctic 10,000 years earlier than initially believed
Plenty of previous evidence shows that humans hunted mammoths during the late Pleistocene, with some studies arguing that our species hastened the mammoths’ extinction.
However, a Siberian discovery shows a mammoth hunt high in the Arctic around 45,000 years ago, almost ten millennia before humans were thought to have walked that area.
Motion-triggered cameras observe wild life
Motion-triggered cameras in different parts of the southern province of Burdur have been observing wild life in the region for three years. The cameras have so far photographed various species including the caracal, coyote, wolf, fox, wild rabbit and badger.
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