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Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the largest animals they shared the landscape with: at archaeological sites associated with human activity, female mammoths vastly outnumber males. An international team analyzed genomic data from 521 woolly mammoths from…
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Ancient Lakes Beneath the Gobi Desert Once Sustained Human Life 8,000 Years Ago
Polish–Mongolian team uncovers evidence that one of Earth’s driest regions was once a green corridor for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Long before the Gobi Desert became a realm of dust and wind, it was a landscape alive with water. A network of ancient lakes — now vanished — once formed a mosaic of fertile basins across what…