Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants

Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants
Author: Gary Haynes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1991
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521456913

This study uses the ecology and behaviour of modern elephants to create models for reconstructing the life and death of extinct mammoths and mastodons.

Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants

Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants
Author: Gary Haynes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1991-09-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521384353

The diminishing population of African and Asian elephants can be compared to the extinction of other elephant-like species, such as mammoths and mastodonts, which occurred more than ten thousand years ago. The purpose of this book is to use the ecology and behavior of modern elephants to create models for reconstructing the life and death of extinct mammoths and mastodonts. The source of the models is a long-term and continuing study of elephants in Zimbabwe, Africa. These models are clearly described with respect to the anatomical, behavioral, and ecological similarities between past and present proboscideans. The implications of these similarities on the life and death of mammoths and mastodonts is explored in detail. The importance of this book is primarily its unifying perspective on living and extinct proboscideans: the fossil record is closely examined and compared to the natural history of surviving elephants. Dr. Haynes's studies of the places where African elephants die (so-called elephant burial grounds) are unique.

Mammoths and Mastodons

Mammoths and Mastodons
Author: Cheryl Bardoe
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780810984134

Provides information about the mammoths and mastodons that roamed the Earth for millions of years.

Mammoths

Mammoths
Author: Adrian Lister
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Mammoths
ISBN: 9780565093273

Explore the world of mammoths with this illustrated guide, featuring photographs of skeletons, casts, tusks and preserved flesh from the world-famous collections of the Natural History Museum, London and the Field Museum in North America.

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
Author: Michelle Robinson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805099662

A young freckled girl shows step-by-step how to give a bath to her pet woolly mammoth.

How to Clone a Mammoth

How to Clone a Mammoth
Author: Beth Shapiro
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0691209561

An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to life Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, addresses this intriguing question by walking readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the extraordinary cutting-edge science that is being used to resurrect the past. Considering de-extinction's practical benefits and ethical challenges, Shapiro argues that the overarching goal should be the revitalization and stabilization of contemporary ecosystems. Looking at the very real and compelling science behind an idea once seen as science fiction, How to Clone a Mammoth demonstrates how de-extinction will redefine conservation's future.

When Mammoths Walked the Earth

When Mammoths Walked the Earth
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2002
Genre: Animals, Fossil
ISBN: 0618096337

Describes the physical characteristics, known habits, and fossil sites of mammoths, prehistoric animals closely related to the elephant.

Mammoths

Mammoths
Author: Adrian Lister
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780785833284

A dazzling visual record of one of Earth's most extraordinary species, this updated and revised edition of Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age integrates exciting new research to piece together the story of mammoths, mastodons, and their relatives, icons of the Ice Age. Incorporating recent genetic work, new fossil finds, new extinction theories, and more, Mammoths is a captivating exploration of how these mighty creatures evolved, lived, and mysteriously disappeared. The book features a wealth of color illustrations that depict mammoths in their dramatic Ice Age habitats, scores of photographs of mammoth remains, and images of the art of prehistoric people who saw these animals in the flesh. Have you ever wondered what a Mammoth would look like in real life? Find out what a Mammoth would look like today and so much more in Mammoths. Full of intriguing facts, boxed features, and clear graphics, Mammoths examines the findings, including intact frozen carcasses from Siberia and fossilized remains from South Dakota, California, England, France, and elsewhere that have provided clues to the mammoths' geographic range, body structure, way of life, and interactions with early humans. It is an enthralling story of paleontological, archaeological, and geological exploration and of the fascinating investigations of biologists, anthropologists, and art historians worldwide.

Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time
Author: Michael Oard
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0890514186

Earth's past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles.One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many years and has come to some fascinating conclusions to help lift the fog engulfing the facts. Some of the questions he addresses include:What would cause the summer temperatures of the northern United States and European to plummet more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit?Why did mammoths become extinct across the entire earth at the same time as many other large mammals?Why are the mammoth carcasses found generally in standing positions?How could large lakes exist in what are today very dry, desert-like places?What was the source of the abnormal of moisture necessary for heavy snow?What caused the cold summer temperatures and heavy snowfall to persist for hundreds of years?In logical progression many other Ice Age topics are explained including super Ice Age floods, ice cores, man in the Ice Age, and the number of ice ages. This is one of the most difficult eras in geological history for a uniformitarian scientist (one who believes the earth evolved by slow processes over millions of years) to explain, simply because long ages of evolution cannot explain it. Provided here are plausible explanations of the seemingly unsolvable mysterious about the Ice Age and the woolly mammoths - Frozen in Time.

Ivory, Horn and Blood

Ivory, Horn and Blood
Author: Ronald Isaac Orenstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: African elephant
ISBN: 9781770852273

Describes the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns and the implications for these endangered animals.