A Mammoth Task @TaskMammoth
A Mammoth Task is a blog about emergent biotechnology and innovations in conservation science. Website optimised for horizontal use on mobiles. aMammothTask.com Science blog Joined January 2020-
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🦜🦜 🧬🧬 ⬇️⬇️ The kakapo is one of the most endangered birds in the world Our analysis of 50 kakapo genomes suggests that 10,000 years of inbreeding and purifying selection have reduced the amount of harmful mutations in the surviving population Paper: cell.com/cell-genomics/…
85 years ago today, an entire branch was cut off the tree of life, when the last known living #thylacine died of exposure: it was locked out of the indoor part of its enclosure at a Tasmanian zoo. The event is commemorated as #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, lest we forget. #extinction
We are hiring for a PhD student in Wildlife Palaeogenomics! The project aims to analyse ancient & modern genomes from several vertebrate species to investigate the postglacial recolonisation of Scandinavia. Apply here (deadline 25/9): su.se/english/about-… Retweets welcome!
Rewilding: should we bring the lynx back to Britain? theguardian.com/environment/20…
Ever wonder about the meanderings of a mammoth? Check out this cool study in @ScienceMagazine w/ contributions from @bonesandbugs & @UCSC_PGL postdoc Katie Moon. High res isotope & ancient DNA analyses together paint a clear picture of this woolly’s life 17,000 years ago! 🦣🧬👩🔬
Ever wonder about the meanderings of a mammoth? Check out this cool study in @ScienceMagazine w/ contributions from @bonesandbugs & @UCSC_PGL postdoc Katie Moon. High res isotope & ancient DNA analyses together paint a clear picture of this woolly’s life 17,000 years ago! 🦣🧬👩🔬
🦣 🦏 🐕 🐴 🐄 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ New paper published, outlining how biomolecular approaches can be used to study faunal histories. Led by PhD students and postdocs at #CpgSthlm. mdpi.com/1424-2818/13/8…
Informative piece on genetics in rewilding, applies to bison in Slovakia & possibly also Polish herds. 'We need to establish new wild herds of bison, to ensure the ongoing preservation of “wild genes” in these animals' #biodiversity #rewilding rewilding.org/wild-bison-res…
It’s #WorldElephantDay! Archaeologists from #MOLAHeadland (@MOLArchaeology & @HeadlandArchUK ) revealed remains of woolly mammoth thought to be 100,000 years old during excavations carried out as part of the #A14Archaeology programme for the @HighwaysEngland #A14C2H scheme
This CAVE LION cub is arguably the best preserved #iceage animal ever found! It's name is Sparta. In a paper published today with colleagues from 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 & 🇫🇷, we use DNA & 14C to show that it's a female cub that died c 28,000 years ago. Read more here: mdpi.com/2571-550X/4/3/…
Survival of Europe's biggest lowland woodland (#bialowieza) & European #bison (& long survival of #aurochs as well) linked to depopulation & resulting #rewilding due to medieval #crusades against the last major pagan nation in Europe (#Lithuania) independent.co.uk/climate-change… #history
July is typically a lean month for food since the flowers have gone over but the fruits have yet to ripen. The #dormice therefore head to the canopy to feed on aphids & other #invertebrates. However, we still recorded 27 #dormice inc. litters & pregnant females @PTES
This #museummonday we’re celebrating teamwork behind the scenes. Our exhibits team and vertebrate paleontology collections team work together to keep our fossils cleaned, repaired and available for your viewing pleasure. Talk about a mammoth spring/summer cleaning task. #UNSM150
Animals at @WelshMountainZo enjoy their own ice lollies in the heatwave #photography #weather #welshmountainzoo
Wonder what weird faunal relationships existed on the Pleistocene steppe-tundra... Did anything shelter in the wool of rhinos or mammoth? Surely birds' nests were lined using their shed fluff in spring...
Wonder what weird faunal relationships existed on the Pleistocene steppe-tundra... Did anything shelter in the wool of rhinos or mammoth? Surely birds' nests were lined using their shed fluff in spring...
This is one treasure of the thawing permafrost - a mammoth bone. Here in Duvanny Yar lie other animals which roamed what were then Arctic grasslands in their millions during the Pleistocene era, from two million to fifteen thousand years ago trib.al/qYAt6vu
"Every single river in England is polluted beyond legal limits … Over the last decade Govt funding for Env Agency has fallen by over 70%" This is my local river. It feeds a SSSI. Sign petition to refund environment agencies → rebrand.ly/riveraction
In a bed of wildflowers we begin a new journey. Half of the farm rewilded with more natural critters. Other half for open walking will be managed with Koniks, Tamworth’s and our own herd of mixed beef cattle. They are pretty and their mums won’t kill you. What’s not to like.
Baby woolly mammoth tooth, Kents Cavern, Devon. Would have lived long enough to find its feet, be stroked by its mother while it fed, and —maybe— look like an adorable idiot as it tried to use its trunk for the first time. Then hyaenas got it.
Why did mammoths, ground sloths, gomphotheres & lots of other #megafauna go extinct across the world during the last 50000 years, leaving faunas uniquely downsized in a 30+ million year perspective? Check my perspective in this talk @MPI_SHH vimeo.com/517109209 #Extinction
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