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Hippos Lived Alongside Mammoths 47,000 Years Ago During the Last Ice Age
Learn how radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis revealed that hippos were alive and thriving during Europe’s last ice ...
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Hippos in the Ice Age: Ancient DNA rewrite Europe’s wildlife story
For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...
Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...
A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.
A groundbreaking study published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) in July 2025 has revealed the discovery of 75,000-year-old animal remains in Norway, preserved deep within ...
Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...
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