The Fate of the Mammoth

The Fate of the Mammoth
Title The Fate of the Mammoth PDF eBook
Author Claudine Cohen
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 334
Release 2002-04-02
Genre Nature
ISBN 0226112926

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Reveals new information about the mammoth elephant, and about the science that grew up around its discovery.

Mammoth

Mammoth
Title Mammoth PDF eBook
Author Chris Flynn
Publisher Univ. of Queensland Press
Pages 245
Release 2020-04-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0702263931

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The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world. With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.

The Fate of the Mammoth

The Fate of the Mammoth
Title The Fate of the Mammoth PDF eBook
Author Claudine Cohen
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 336
Release
Genre Science
ISBN 9780226112930

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From cave paintings to the latest Siberian finds, woolly mammoths have fascinated people across Europe, Asia, and North America for centuries. Remains of these enormous prehistoric animals were among the first fossils to be recognized as such, and they have played a crucial role in the birth and development of paleontology. In this lively, wide-ranging look at the fate of the mammoth, Claudine Cohen reanimates this large mammal with heavy curved tusks and shaggy brown hair through its history in science, myth, and popular culture. Cohen uses the mammoth and the theories that naturalists constructed around it to illuminate wider issues in the history of science, showing how changing views about a single object reveal the development of scientific methods, practices, and ideas. How are fossils discovered, reconstructed, displayed, and interpreted? What stories are told about them, by whom, and how do these stories reflect the cultures and societies in which they are told? To find out, Cohen takes us on a grand tour of the study of mammoth remains, from England, Germany, and France to Russia and America, and from the depths of Africa to the frozen frontiers of Alaska and Siberia, where intact mammoth corpses have been discovered in the permafrost. Along the way, she shows how paleontologists draw on myth and history, as well as on scientific evidence, to explore the deep history of the earth and of life. Cohen takes her history from the sixteenth century right up to the present, when researchers are using molecular biology to retrieve mammoth DNA, calling up dreams of cloning the mammoth and one day seeing herds of woolly mammoths roaming the frozen steppes.

Woolly Mammoth

Woolly Mammoth
Title Woolly Mammoth PDF eBook
Author Windsor Chorlton
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 2001
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780439241342

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Offers information on the discovery of the Jarkov mammoth in the Taymyr Peninsula, including a history of the prehistoric species.

A Mammoth in the Fridge

A Mammoth in the Fridge
Title A Mammoth in the Fridge PDF eBook
Author Michaël Escoffier
Publisher Gecko
Pages 36
Release 2012
Genre Children's stories
ISBN 9781877579141

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"If you find a mammoth in your fridge, there are two questions you should ask: 'How did it get there?' and 'How do you get it out?' A tale with a surprise twist at the end."--Publisher.

End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals

End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Title End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals PDF eBook
Author Ross D E MacPhee
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 386
Release 2018-11-13
Genre Science
ISBN 0393249301

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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths? No one event can be pinpointed as a specific cause, but several factors may have played a role. Paleomammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee explores them all, examining the leading extinction theories, weighing the evidence, and presenting his own conclusions. He shows how theories of human overhunting and catastrophic climate change fail to account for critical features of these extinctions, and how new thinking is needed to elucidate these mysterious losses. Along the way, we learn how time is determined in earth history; how DNA is used to explain the genomics and phylogenetic history of megafauna—and how synthetic biology and genetic engineering may be able to reintroduce these giants of the past. Until then, gorgeous four-color illustrations by Peter Schouten re-create these megabeasts here in vivid detail.

Twilight of the Mammoths

Twilight of the Mammoths
Title Twilight of the Mammoths PDF eBook
Author Paul S. Martin
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 276
Release 2007-05-08
Genre Nature
ISBN 0520252438

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"Paul S. Martin's innovative ideas on late quaternary extinctions and wildlife restoration have fueled one of science's most stimulating recent debates. He expounds them vividly here, and defends them eloquently. A must-read."—David Rains Wallace, author of Beasts of Eden "This is a marvelous read, by a giant in American prehistory, about one of the greatest mysteries in the earth sciences."—Tim Flannery, author of The Eternal Frontier "Whether or not you agree with Paul Martin, he has shaped how we think about our Pleistocene ancestors and their role in transforming this planet."—Ross D. E. MacPhee, Curator of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History