Mammoths Research Papers Samples For Students

Part 1 Video Critique

The video chosen for the critique is a video showing the discovery of wooly mammoth carcass in Siberia by scientists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQKWQ1t9r0). The wooly mammoth was a big, shaggy and tusked elephant like animal that lived in the ice age period. The animal belongs to the mammoth species which is the common name for the elephant genus Mammuthus which is now extinct. A catastrophic weather event, climate change, disease and human activities may have wiped out these huge shaggy beasts. They lived in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America during the ice age period. The last mammoths may have lived around 1700 ...

The Venus of Willendorf is one of the ancient and most popular Upper Paleolithic female sculptures. It was discovered by Josef Szombathyin in 1908 when investigating the settlements that belonged to the local Gravettians. It was found in Willendorf, Lower Austria near Krems, about 10 meters above River Danube (Skye 79). Just like other Paleolithic works of art, is not clear when the sculpture was made even when estimated. Researchers have differed on this issue. Some have dated it to approximately 30 000 BCE (Gilgamesh 503). On the other hand, there are those who maintain that it was made ...

Science has advanced so much that scientists are now bring extinct animals back to life- they call it de-extinction . De-extinction is done by two methods- cloning and selective breeding. Cloning is a process in which the DNA of an organism that is desired to be cloned is taken out and infused in the cell of another existing organism belonging to the same class. When fertilization takes place in the existing organism, it is able to produce an off-spring that looks exactly like the organism which was desired to be cloned. Selective breeding is the method in which DNA from teeth ...