by be-webmaster | Jun 10, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: Relict woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) populations survived on several small Beringian islands for thousands of years after mainland populations went extinct. Here we present multiproxy paleoenvironmental records to investigate the timing, causes, and...
by be-webmaster | Apr 13, 2015 | News
By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office Tired of answering questions about cloning mammoths, Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a book called How to Clone a Mammoth. (Spoiler Alert: You can’t...
by be-webmaster | Apr 22, 2014 | Nature News, News
By Guy Lasnier, UCSC Public Information Office The notion of de-extinction, using genetic engineering to bring back species that have become extinct, is attracting wide attention with recent articles in the New York Times and National Geographic and an episode of the...
by be-webmaster | Aug 26, 2013 | Nature News, News
By Kelly Servick, UCSC Science Communication Program Illustration by Jessica Hsiung Twelve birds lie belly-up in a wooden drawer. Bloated with stuffing, their ruddy brown chests resemble a row of sweet potatoes. Slate blue heads and thin white tails protrude in...
by be-webmaster | Jun 26, 2013 | Nature News, News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an ancient horse that lived 700,000 years ago in the early Middle Pleistocene epoch. It is by far the oldest genome scientists have been able to sequence...
