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Image from the Royal BC Museum in Victoria #LegendaryWednesday #DailySpookLore #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #MonsterSky #CryptidSky #BritishColumbiaSky #CanadaSky #MuseumSky #Mythology #Folklore #Monster #Cryptid #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada

Woolly Joe: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/woolly-joe-lisa-s-baker.html

#woolly #Woollymammoth #fantasy #extinct #fun #coffee #pastries #bakery #cafe #hotbeverage #tea #java #mocha #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #funart #mixedmedia #humor #humorous #Tuesday #playful #whimsical #surrealism

14-Nov-2025
The world’s oldest #RNA extracted from #woollyMammoth

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105073 #science #fossils #ancientDNA #evolution #extinction #geneExpression #genome

#Genetics of #CentralAmerica #mammoths were weird
The species's boundaries in #NorthAmerica seem to have been fairly fluid.
The #DNA suggests that the #woollymammoth is an offshoot of the steppe #mammoth lineage, and was the first to migrate into North America. But the Columbian mammoth was a bit of an enigma; some genetic data suggested it was also a steppe offshoot, while other samples indicated it might be a woolly/steppe hybrid. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/genetically-central-american-mammoths-were-weird/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my steppe mammoth block artwork.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #IceAge #WoollyMammoth #Mammoth #SteppeMammoth #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. One of the coins featured the steppe mammoth, it was a time to reflect on how long I'd been drawing very dead things!

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #IceAge #WoollyMammoth #Mammoth #SteppeMammoth #Palaeontology #Paleontology #FossilFriday

Scientists Claim To Have Brought Back Dire Wolves #colossalbiosciences #direwolf #direwolves #news #randomasitgets #woollymammoth

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/347312/scientists-claim-to-have-brought-back-dire-wolves/

Scientists genetically engineer mice with thick hair like the extinct woolly mammoth.

From @AssociatedPress: "Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts."

https://flip.it/4n-iBC

#Animals #Extinction #Science #Mice #WoollyMammoth #Biotech

of mice and mammoths https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth #science #SmallBeginnings #ecology #DeExtinction #collossal #woollyMammoth

#WoollyMammoth #DeExtinction

"A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.

Scientists at the US biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences plan to 'de-extinct' the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the end of 2028.

Ben Lamm, co-founder and chief executive of Colossal, said the team had been studying ancient mammoth genomes and comparing them with those of Asian elephants to understand how they differ and had already begun genome-editing cells of the latter.

Now the team say they have fresh support for their approach after creating healthy, genetically modified mice that have traits geared towards cold tolerance, including woolly hair. 'It does not accelerate anything but it’s a massive validating point,' Lamm said."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth

The Mice That Roared - Scientists create woolly mice species
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth
#science #news #GeneticEngineering #extinction #WoollyMammoth #biology #mice #WoollyMice

I'm in a friend group where people regularly share articles and TikToks etc claiming all kinds of findings.

I am that person who then tries to find the sources of the original information, then reads academic papers to gauge if the "headlines" that are shared can actually backed up by proper science.

In this process, I often find myself uttering the words "I hate to be this person again, but... *in mice*. They did *one* small study with *mice* and found an effect *in mice*."

I love this.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth

#Science #InMice #Mice #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my painting of two fighting Columbian mammoths, they will become locked together and die together.

This book would make a great Christmas gift! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Mammoths #WoollyMammoth

My Ice Age Giants coin collection, from the The Royal Mint UK and the Natural History Museum, London, is out today! You can view and buy them here: https://www.royalmint.com/
They are limited editions so don't wait.

#coins #coincollector #coincollecting #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #IceAge #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #WoollyRhino #Megaloceros

Standing above Mammoth tusks, and a juvenile molar and jaw section, excavated from the chalk and gravel on the site, at what is now College Lake nature reserve, Tring, Hertfordshire, England.

#mammoth #mammothlakes #mammothtusk #woollymammoth #palaeontology #prehistoric #prehistoric #collegelakenaturereserve #naturereserve #fossiladdict #fossils #fossil #fossillovers #prehistoriclife #tring #hertfordshire #chiltern #pleistocene #geeklife #geekedout #naturewalk

Scientists Just Discovered An Extinct Pygmy Woolly Mammoth In Siberia
https://allthatsinteresting.com/pygmy-woolly-mammoth

#Mammoth
#WoollyMammoth
#PygmyWoollyMammoth
#Siberia
#GoldenMammoth
#DwarfSpecies
#MammuthusExilis
#Russia
#Kotelny
#YakutinAcademyOfSciences
#Paleontology
#KarginskyInterglacialTime
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateChange
#UnusuallyHotSummer

11-JUL-2024
First ever 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old #woollyMammoth #chromosomes thanks to serendipitously freeze-dried skin

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1049787 #science #ancientDNA #mammoth

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Two close-ups from my 2011 acrylic painting "Lion Cave." It features a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and passing woolly mammoths (Mammothus primigenius).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #IceAge #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #Lions

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here is a 2011 acrylic painting of a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and a passing herd of woolly mammoth (Mammothus primigenius).

#IceAge #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #Lions #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

27-JUN-2024
Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to #extinction

The last population of #WoollyMammoth was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of #Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland. A new genomic analysis reveals that the mammoths originated from at most 8 individuals but grew to 200–300 individuals within 20 generations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1048810 #science #evolution #ecology #genome

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” ...

#WoollyMammoth #Science #nature #cartoon #wtf is going on

6-MAR-2024
Revolutionary elephant iPSC milestone reached in Colossal’s #WoollyMammoth Project
Colossal scientists achieve global first; technology promises seminal advancements for engineering Woolly Mammoth phenotypes in in vitro cellular models, developmental biology, and attaining balance between senescence and cell growth

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1036626 loving the modesty with which they called their company Colossal.
#science #genome #StemCells #DeExtinction #ExtinctSpecies

Scientists hope to bring the dodo back from extinction
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/scientists-hope-to-bring-the-dodo-back-from-extinction/ar-BB1iwiMf?cvid=5fcccca0959c424cfd527f2006a54bcb&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=7

#Dodo
#DeExtinction
#DNA
#Paleontology
#WoollyMammoth
#Mammoth
#TasmaniaTiger
#Mauritius
#Rewinding

We also stopped to visit a Mammoth. It's not the same Mammoth as a few weeks back. No, someone built another Mammoth !
#velomobile #regel17 #mammoth #WoollyMammoth #teepee #netherlands #drenthe

As a distraction from all the craziness in the world at the moment, here's a lovely image from those good people at Encyclopedia Britannica, comparing a #Mastodon with #WoollyMammoth and #AfricanElephant.

Source=https://www.britannica.com/animal/mastodon

Helping clean partner’s apartment, found myself a mascot I bought years ago at a yard sale. #woollymammoth #mastodon #meta #beaniebabies