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Small species back-up giant marsupial climate change extinction claim

...o. In the northern hemisphere species such as the woolly mammoth and sabretooth tiger dominated the landscape, while in Australia - which evolved for 40 million years in isolation - giant marsupials ruled. Current theories suggest that between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, increasing aridity in Australia l...

Scientists sequence DNA of woolly mammoth

...hers' report on the first genomic sequences from a woolly mammoth will be published on 22 December 2005 by the journal Science on the Science Express website, http://www.sciencexpress.org . This majestic mammal roamed grassy plains of the Northern Hemisphere until it became extinct about 10,000 years ago....

Fungal factories may save hemlock forests

...nifer is now succumbing to an exotic pest, hemlock woolly adelgid. First detected in the western US in 1924,...ide of hemlock branches, the pest produces a white woolly tuft that gives it its name. The fungus looks white and woolly too. But the subtle difference may me...

Immunization rates hit record high in poor countries

...nifer is now succumbing to an exotic pest, hemlock woolly adelgid. First detected in the western US in 1924,...ide of hemlock branches, the pest produces a white woolly tuft that gives it its name. The fungus looks white and woolly too. But the subtle difference may me...

Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves

...ists have realized. To the list of victims such as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats, a Smithsonian-led team of scientists has added one more: a highly carnivorous form of wolf that lived in Alaska, north of the ice sheets. Wolves were generally thought to have survived the end-Pleistocene extinction...

Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearance

...to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age gi...dy, Barnes and Lister’s team looked to the extinct woolly mammoth. What they found, however, was an “interesting pattern, not like those of the other species....

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