Sentences with phrase «woolly rhino»

But the diversity of those tiny bits of DNA was growing, including DNA from the Tasmanian tiger, dodo bird, the New Zealand Moa, the mammoth, woolly rhino, saber - toothed cats, Egyptian mummies, and even Neanderthals.

The big - cat fossils are the latest addition to a string of mammalian fossils recently found in Tibet, says Wang, including pikas, horses, hyenas and pre-Ice Age fauna such as the woolly rhino and Tibetan blue sheep.

Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice - age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.

Vladimir Pitulko, of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg, discovered spear foreshafts made of mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn, stone tools, and bones that display signs of butchering.

As time ran out for the woolly rhino, strange things happened.

Arrows indicate large articulation facets of cervical ribs on a fossil cervical vertebra of a woolly rhino of Naturalis, Leiden.

Our work now shows that there was indeed a problem in the woolly rhino population.»

Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae from several European and American museum collections and noticed that the remains of woolly rhinos from the North Sea often possess a «cervical» (neck) rib — in contrast to modern rhinos.

«Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction: Fossils point to rare condition in the extinct species, possibly caused by inbreeding and harsh conditions during pregnancy.

«The woolly rhino bones were all dredged from the North Sea and river deltas in the Netherlands.

«This aroused our curiosity to also check the woolly rhino, a species that, like the woolly mammoth lived during the late Pleistocene and similarly died out,» said Alexandra van der Geer, one of the authors of the study.

John Stewart said, «During the Ice Age just over 40 thousand years ago in the north of England Neanderthals were living in an environment which included extinct animals like woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave hyenas as well as the more familiar horses and reindeer.

The study, published in the open access journal PeerJ today, reports on the incidence of abnormal cervical vertebrae in woolly rhinos, which strongly suggests a vulnerable condition in the species.

Scientists examined neck bones from 32 woolly rhinos and found indented spots on five of them where ribs had once attached...

In the «Instant expert» guide to mass extinctions, your description of how woolly rhinos and mammoths died out 11,000 years...

Fossil evidence suggests that some woolly rhinos may have been at a high risk for sprouting bizarre ribs from their necks before going extinct, a potential result of inbreeding, Susan Milius reported in «Woolly rhinos may have grown strange extra ribs before going extinct» (SN: 9/30/17, p. 10).

«Frozen material could allow extinct animals like early mastodons and woolly rhinos to be sequenced»

These days the biggest mysteries that people are talking about seem to be bright spots, woolly rhinos, Martian «blobs,» and yes, even blue - and - black dresses... or is it gold and white?!

Not exact matches

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

But the northern white rhino project is fundamentally different from other projects like the Woolly Mammoth Revival, and that makes the money worth it, says Joseph Bennett, an assistant professor at Carleton University, who's criticized the costs of de-extinction and is not involved in the northern white rhino project.

While the habitat of the woolly mammoth is widely different from what it was thousands of years ago — fragmented by roads and cities, for instance — the habitat of the northern white rhino still exists.

For starters, unlike the woolly mammoth, the northern white rhino is not extinct — yet.