Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems ...

However, researchers have now found a way to isolate collagen peptides from these remains, and possibly identify some of Australia’s megafauna. “The low number of fossils that have been found at ...

“Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry — ZooMS — could increase the number of identified megafauna fossils, but only if collagen peptide markers for these species are available.” Analyzing the peptides ...

Peptide markers in collagen can help us identify species from fragments of bone too damaged to recognize, and fossils found in places that are too hot or humid to preserve DNA. A team of ...

But surviving fossils are often too fragmented to determine the original species, and DNA is not always recoverable, especially in hot or damp environments. Now scientists have isolated collagen ...

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and ...

To investigate this, the team used their genetic and fossil analyses to reconstruct ... and highly debated issues such as the extinction of megafauna,” says Thaís Rabito Pansani, a ...

She agrees that it’s modern—not a fossil. “Maybe a pack rat ... “One thing I’ve learned about Late Pleistocene megafauna is that they were pretty resilient,” Meachen says ...