Tag Archive for 'Columbian mammoth'

Life reconstruction of the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii). Image credit: Beth Zaiken / Centre for Palaeogenetics.

New Genomic Research Sheds More Light on Evolutionary History of Mammoths

Apr 10, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists have extracted and analyzed 34 new mammoth (Mammuthus spp.) mitochondrial genomes, including two Early Pleistocene and nine Middle Pleistocene...

An artist’s reconstruction of Clovis life 13,000 years ago shows the Anzick-1 infant with his mother consuming mammoth meat near a hearth. Another individual crafts tools, including dart projectile points and atlatls. A mammoth butchery area is visible nearby. Image credit: Eric Carlson / Ben Potter / Jim Chatters.

Clovis People’s Diet Mainly Included Mammoths and Other Large Mammals, New Study Says

Dec 4, 2024 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have found that the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was the largest contributor to the diet of the Clovis people — the...

Clovis points with distinctive flute or channel flake scars. Image credit: S. Byram.

Study: Clovis People Used Planted Pikes for Hunting of Megaherbivores

Aug 21, 2024 by News Staff

Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia...

Researchers Sequence 1.2-Million-Year-Old Mammoth DNA

Feb 17, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed DNA from three mammoth specimens, two of which are more than one million years old. The...

12,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in New Mexico

Oct 15, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered a long prehistoric human trackway at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, the United States. The...

Photographs of the study site at the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico: (a) ‘ghost tracks’ - the surface expression of the tracks is poor as can be seen from the image and they can only be seen under specific moisture and salt conditions; scale bar - 500 mm from target to target; (b) tracks at the study site excavated to reveal both human and mammoth tracks; (c) ground-penetrating radar (GPR) equipment used in this study; (d) gridded foam mats used to protect the surface during the GPR survey; (e) excavated human tracks at the study site. Image credit: Urban et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52996-8.

Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Ice-Age Human and Animal Footprints in New Mexico

Nov 13, 2019 by News Staff

‘Ghost’ fossilized footprints of human, mammoths, giant sloths and other Pleistocene creatures discovered at the White Sands National Monument in New...

A herd of African elephants in South Africa. Image credit: Coco Parisienne.

Scientists Reconstruct Evolutionary History of Elephants

Feb 28, 2018 by News Staff

Elephants were once among the most widespread megafaunal families. However, only three species exist today: two species of the genus Loxodonta, the forest...

Footprints of Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by Retallack et al in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon. Image credit: Greg Shine, Bureau of Land Management.

Fossil Trackway Reveals Clues about Family Dynamics of Columbian Mammoths

Feb 14, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) may have moved like modern elephants with infants in matriarchal groups. That’s according to a team of U.S. paleontologists...