Tag: Holocene
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ESCONI June 2025 General Meeting – June 13th, 2025 – “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas”
The June 2025 General Meeting will be held at 8:00 PM CDT on June 13th, 2025 via Zoom. Our speaker is John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His topic is “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas“. Since its…
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Mammoth and Horse DNA Left in Freezer Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about research that shows that woolly mammoths and other Ice Age animals survived up to about 5,000 years ago instead of the accepted 13,000 years. Frozen permafrost samples collected about 10 years ago were analyzed and they revealed DNA of wooly mammoths, wild horses, and steppe bison. The research was…
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World Atlas: What Is The Difference Between Paleontology And Archeology?
Check out this article in the World Atlas. I hear this all the time when I mention fossil hunting… quite often they say something like “I love archeology” or “When did you get interested in archeology” or even “Where do archeologists find dinosaur bones?” Hopefully, this will clear up the concepts, paleontologists study dinosaurs and…
