mammoths | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 13 May 2025 21:46:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 What to call the giant cat from the Ice Age? https://boneblogger.com/what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:20:19 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2275 The Ice Age of the recent past was a fascinating time, full of superlative animals, especially the mammalian megafauna of North America. The Ice Age, also referred to as the Pleistocene epoch, lasted from 1.9 million years ago to 10,000 years ago, and was characterized by a series of glacial advances and retreats across much […]

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]]> Mammoth protein designed to be cool https://boneblogger.com/mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:00:05 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2257 Researchers were recently able to isolate and study woolly mammoth hemoglobin and compare it to the modern African and Asian elephants. They isolated the genes from DNA that code for the creation of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in our blood. This was done for both the modern elephant species, as well as from DNA […]

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