Recently the papers have been filled with news about a creature brought back to life out of ancient history. The “Dire Wolf” was an enormous canine carnivore found in the Americas from about 125,000 years ago, dying out only 10,000 years before the present day. Firstly, let’s get some misapprehensions about this ancient creature out
Between the years of 1831 and 1833 the northern hemisphere was a lot cooler than it should have been. Scientists have long known that this significant and sudden cooling was caused by an enormous volcanic eruption in the year 1831, but the precise location of the volcano behind the climate change has long been a
Scientists from Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University have unveiled the remains of a baby mammoth found in the Siberian permafrost. The mammoth is in a remarkable state of preservation, complete with soft tissue and viable DNA. The mammoth is estimated to have died at around a year old some 50,000 years ago, and is an exceptionally
A new study has revealed that the cooperative bond between humans and canines in the Americas may date back as far as the Late Pleistocene, some 12,000 years ago. This pushes back the evidence of our first interspecies interactions by some two millennia. The study, led by Dr. François Lanoë from the University of Arizona’s