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Europe Starts Its Own Social Networks

If Twitter and YouTube are skeeving you out, the bloc believes it can offer an alternative.

Illustration: Jorge González (Wikimedia Commons)

This Elephant-Like Giant Roamed South America for 2 Million Years

Three new papers describe Notiomastodon, an elephant relative that's long been in the shadow of its more famous cousin, the woolly mammoth.

Biology Jeanne Timmons

Trump’s Social Media Platform Could Already Face Legal Issues, After Allegedly Ripping Off Code

The Don has released a beta of his new social media platform and, predictably, it's a knock-off version of an already existing platform.

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows

A decade-long study of environmental DNA indicates that glacial melt may have doomed the hairy animals.

Biology Isaac Schultz

Unprecedented Study of a Woolly Mammoth Shows Where It Roamed From Birth to Death

Paleontologists have reconstructed the life history of a male mammoth who traveled across Alaska 17,000 years ago.

Biology Jeanne Timmons

Photo: Jason Halley (California State University, Chico)

Giant Camels and More Treasures Discovered in Fossilized California Forest

First, the trees came out of the ground. A few weeks later, the bones emerged. Bit by bit over the past year, a team of paleontologists and geologists, among others, have uncovered the fossilized remains of a Miocene forest, from its gomphotheres and mastodons to the trees themselves. A park ranger, Greg Francek, stumbled upon the…

Biology Isaac Schultz

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found

An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) may rival T.…

Biology Jeanne Timmons

Gimlet’s Union Drive, Twisted Graphene, and Psychedelic Mice: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Well, folks, it’s just a few hours shy of the turn of the month, and you know what that means: April Fool’s Day. Yes, it’s that special time of year when insipid brands, mean-spirited teens, and tech titans compete to be the first to trick you into thinking they released Skittle’s… For Men, that it’s…

Tech News Tom McKay

Mastodon Music Video Is An Impressive Tale of A Geek Hero’s Journey

Mastodon is back, and heralding their return is an epic LARP-centric video of one small hero’s epic journey. And it kicks so much ass. It’s really just a good watch from the start all the way to the end. “High Road” was directed by Robert Schober (who has filmed many of our favorite music videos).

io9 Meredith Woerner

Did somebody eat these missing mastodon bones in Central Florida?

A disturbing bit of news has bubbled up in Central Florida, where an 80,000-year-old mastodon skeleton has gone missing from the shed where it had been stored for over 20 years. CFNews13.com reports: City workers stumbled upon the skeleton in 1989 during construction for a water treatment plant off what was then 11th Street, now…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mastodon: Curl of the Burl (NSFW)

This song earned Mastodon a Grammy nod. And, for those of you wondering, no. Snorting wood chips will not get you high. The other part about mushrooms giving you super strength and a lush Paul Bunyan beard—scientific FACT. Mastodon’s formed in late 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia. Its members include Troy Sanders on bass, Brent Hinds…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Ancient mastodon hunt reveals North America’s oldest culture

We know that humans reached North America between 40000 and 16000 years ago…and that’s about all we know for certain. Anything in American prehistory before about 10000 years ago remains deeply controversial. But some mastodon bones found in the 1970s recently revealed major clues. The orthodox view of North American prehistory is that the oldest…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth

There are European cave paintings that are 30000 years old, but the art of the ancient Americas remains a mystery. This bone fragment features an engraving of either a mammoth or a mastodon, and is at least 13000 years old. This bone was discovered in Florida by fossil hunter James Kennedy, who discovered the inscription…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Europe Starts Its Own Social Networks

This Elephant-Like Giant Roamed South America for 2 Million Years

Trump’s Social Media Platform Could Already Face Legal Issues, After Allegedly Ripping Off Code

Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows

Unprecedented Study of a Woolly Mammoth Shows Where It Roamed From Birth to Death

Giant Camels and More Treasures Discovered in Fossilized California Forest

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found

Gimlet’s Union Drive, Twisted Graphene, and Psychedelic Mice: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Mastodon Music Video Is An Impressive Tale of A Geek Hero’s Journey

Did somebody eat these missing mastodon bones in Central Florida?

Mastodon: Curl of the Burl (NSFW)

Ancient mastodon hunt reveals North America’s oldest culture

The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth

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