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Any employment of bipartisanship in Congress is a welcome sign at a time when posturing legislators sabotage policy and get giddy grinding the gears of government to a standstill.

Research on a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth unveils her migration patterns, interactions with early humans, and contributions to understanding mammoth life and extinction. An international team of researchers from McMaster University, University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Ottawa h

A woolly mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago travelled more than 1,000km across North America, before encountering humans.

An international team of researchers from McMaster University, University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Ottawa has tracked and documented the moveme

New analysis of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk has pieced together the life of a female mammoth that likely died at the hands of hunters close to Alaskas oldest archaeological site.

<p>An international team of researchers from McMaster University, University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Ottawa has tracked and documented the movements and genetic connections of a female woolly mammoth that roamed the earth more than 14,000 years ago.</p> <p> </p>

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre traced how bacteria changed at the end of the last ice age

An international team, including researchers from McMaster’s Ancient DNA laboratory, are awaiting direction from a Chilean judge on whether to continue their work in trying to figure out if the famous poet was poisoned.

The calf, named Nun cho ga, meaning big baby animal in the Hän language, was frozen in permafrost, resulting in its remains being mummified. Experts found it is a female.

Ancient DNA suggests that woolly mammoths roamed the Earth more recently than previously thought.