Ancient DNA Traces Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance
Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a recent article.

An Ancient Bathtub Ring Of Mammoth Fossils
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory geologists have put out a call for teeth tusks, femurs and any and all other parts of extinct mammoths left by massive Ice Age floods in southeastern Washington.

What Did Dinosaurs Hear?
By comparing those structures and applying other rules of hearing, the scientists have devised an idea of the dinosaur’s hearing range.

Agonized Death Throes Probable Cause Of Open-mouthed, Head-back Pose Of Many Dinosaur Fossils
The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely results from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation

Spider Blood Found In 20 Million Year Old Fossil
A scientist from the University of Manchester has discovered the firstidentified droplets of spider blood in a piece of amber up to 20million years old.

Amber Specimen Captures Ancient Chemical Battle
It appears that chemical warfare has been around a lot longer than poison arrows, mustard gas or nerve weapons -- about 100 million years, give or take a little.

Proteins could reveal new dinosaur secrets
Soft-tissue discovery opens a biochemical frontier for paleontologists