Mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other giant mammals show up everywhere in popular culture. Many familiar animals possessed unusual traits during the Ice Age (hair on elephants?) or lived in unusual places (giant armadillos in Texas?). The main interest is that they were big. An eight-foot-long beaver—that’s impressive!
Why would the woolly mammoth and many other mammals even want to live in northern Siberia? What would they eat in the snowy tundra? As if the mystery isn’t deep enough, it appears that although they lived well for a time, they suddenly went extinct along with dozens of other large mammals and birds.
One of the most common giant sloths known from North America is Megalonyx jeffersonii. Fossils of this extinct animal are found all over the continent in sedimentary deposits formed just prior to and during the Ice Age that occurred after Noah’s Flood.
In only 10 years or so, you’ll be able (so we’re told) to see woolly mammoths, rhinos, cave lions, and long-extinct horses in a Siberian “Pleistocene Park”.
When you think of the Ice Age, you think of big critters like the woolly mammoth and giant sloth. Why was this huge size so helpful?
According to a report recently published in The Washington Post, researchers have uncovered the cranial remains of an enigmatic mammoth.
Natural Trap Cave preserves a treasure trove of animals from the Ice Age until the 1970s.
When you think “sloth,” you usually think of the slow-moving, tree-hanging creatures from South America. But not all sloths lived in trees.
Pliocene rhino plowing pre-Pleistocene snow pleases paleontologists.
Varieties of fossilized mastodons, mammoths, and other elephants are widely distributed across North America and around the world.
What happened to the woolly mammoths? It’s a whodunit (or, rather, a “what-done-it”) mystery of extinction that rivals the question of what did in the dinosaurs.
Lyuba, a deceased baby woolly mammoth, has left frosty Siberia for a world tour.
Neither mom nor I can remember my age, but we both remember that rock!
Mammoths didn’t die out that long ago: a creationist conclusion or the latest evolutionary idea?
In a special guest news analysis, creationist (and mammoth expert) Michael Oard considers the well-preserved mammoth “Lyuba.”
The frozen remains of a baby mammoth discovered in 2007 are stirring up talk—especially because the mammoth is “remarkably preserved.”
Mapping the genetic code of the woolly mammoth has opened the possibility of bringing one back to life.
The genetic code of the woolly mammoth has finally been (mostly) mapped, and the question on (almost) everyone’s mind is: can we bring one back?
The bones, tusks, and especially carcasses of millions of woolly mammoths frozen in the tundra of Siberia have excited the imaginations of children and scientists for hundreds of years.
It is likely that all mammoths should be classified as one species, or at least within one biblical kind.
Efforts to understand the mysteries associated with the woolly mammoth have led to an abundance of hypotheses — all with mammoth problems.
What drew millions of woolly mammoths to the far north where the winters are currently so fiercely cold and the summers so dangerously boggy? And what did they eat while they were there?
Frozen mammoth carcasses have challenged our imagination for centuries. These carcasses sometimes come with skin, hair, and internal organs including the heart.
There is plenty of evidence that the woolly mammoths in Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon and almost all other surficial sites in the Northern Hemisphere died after the Flood.
Climate change at the end of the Ice Age was the main cause of late Ice Age extinctions.
Despite its appeal, there is much evidence against the quick-freeze hypothesis.
We have developed the post-Flood Ice Age model based on the climatic aftermath of the Genesis flood. Now we are in a position to delve into the mysteries of the woolly mammoth.
The worst problem uniformitarian scientists encounter with the extinction of the Siberian woolly mammoths is that they disappeared not just in Siberia but everywhere at about the same time.
The woolly mammoths have puzzled scientists for hundreds of years, but Ice Age researcher, Mike Oard, has proposed a radical solution in the latest issue of TJ.
A mammoth in an Egyptian painting? Surely not—haven’t we been told in textbooks that mammoths definitely died out some 9,500 years ago?
It was once held that mammoths and mastodons became extinct 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Two Russian scientists have found the remains of a group of woolly mammoths, on an island off northeastern Siberia, which give radiocarbon ages of less than 4,000 years.
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