News articles tagged with 'Pleistocene'
Archeologists investigate Ice Age hominins' adaptability to climate change
— 17 Nov 2011 17:40 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational modelling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights…
Climate change and evolution of Cross River gorillas
— 1 Apr 2011 16:24 | EnvironmentTwo species of gorillas live in central equatorial Africa. Divergence between the Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and Eastern Gorillas (G. beringei) began between 0.9 and 1.6 million…
Giant rats lead scientists to ancient face carvings
— 11 Feb 2011 16:24 | Geology and palaeontologyAncient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant rats…
Longevity unlikely to have aided early modern humans
— 11 Jan 2011 18:20 | Geology and palaeontologyLife expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neanderthals, suggests a new study by a Washington University…
Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
— 4 Jan 2011 20:35 | Geology and palaeontologyA 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown…
Why are there no hyenas in Europe?
— 24 Sep 2010 11:22 | BiologyA team from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) has analysed the impact of climate change on spotted hyena survival in Europe over 10,000 years ago. These changes played…
True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed
— 24 Aug 2010 16:18 | Geology and palaeontologyThe cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences…
Extinction of woolly mammoths may have been due to addition of a predator: Humans
— 3 Jul 2010 09:06 | Geology and palaeontologyThe extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago may be explained by the same type of cascade of ecosystem disruption that is being caused today…
Small mammals - and rest of food chain - at greater risk from global warming than thought
— 23 May 2010 18:22 | EnvironmentThe balance of biodiversity within North American small-mammal communities is so out of whack from the last episode of global warming about 12,000 years ago that the current climate…
Arizona's mammoth hunters - out with a whimper or a bang?
— 13 Apr 2010 09:44 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of researchers from the University of Arizona has revisited evidence pointing to a cataclysmic event thought by many scientists to have wiped out the North American megafauna…