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SCIENTISTS HAVE SOLVED the mystery of why the overwhelming majority of mammoth fossils are male, according to a report published this week in the journal Current Biology.
Much like wild elephants today, young male Ice Age mammoths likely roamed alone and more often got themselves into risky situations where they were swept into rivers, fell through ice or into bogs or sinkholes that preserved their bones for thousands of years, scientists say.
Females, on the other hand, traveled in a group led by an older matriarch who knew the terrain and steered her counterparts away from danger.
“Without the benefit of living in a herd led by an experienced female, male mammoths may have had a higher risk of dying in natural traps such as bogs, crevices, and lakes,” said co-author Love Dalen of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
The study used genomic data to determine the sex of 98 woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) fossils in Siberia.
Researchers found that 69 percent of the samples were male, an unusually skewed sex ratio, assuming that the sexes were fairly even at birth.
“We were very surprised because there was no reason to expect a sex bias in the fossil record,” said first author Patricia Pecnerova, also at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Therefore, researchers believe that something about the way they lived influenced the way they died.
“Most bones, tusks, and teeth from mammoths and other Ice Age animals haven’t survived,” explained Dalen.
“It is highly likely that the remains that are found in Siberia these days have been preserved because they have been buried, and thus protected from weathering.”
These giant, tusked herbivores disappeared about 4,000 years ago, as the climate warmed and the beasts were increasingly hunted by humans.
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Whatever she might claim about who pays her salary and how much it is, is there nothing that tells her that earning the guts of a quarter of a million euro a year when the charity is only gaining 10,000 euro from scratch card sales is fundamentally wrong, “charity begins at home” , selfish , self centered, self serving and she sickens me
Should not the comments be closed…. This is a clear case of criminality!!!!
The woman is on another planet. How many lawyers did it take to come up with todays answers. So even though the State pumps money into Rehab she is not funded by the taxpayer???? Where does the State get it’s money then – the tooth fairy? She has some neck.
That’s the thing she has a brazen neck, getting a straight honest answer, from people like her is like trying to catch an eel from a bucket of jelly!. Well done for trying Mary Lou.
What a greedy self absorbed woman. I thought McDonald grilled her good.
Great performance by Mary Lou McDonald.
Just shows what our system is made of after all it was put together by the few to bully the many. This lady should resign
@Harry I agree she should resign but I doubt she is a lady. Parasite yes….
Greedy Greedy Greedy Greedy Greedy Greedy self entitled woman.
A little misogynistic don’t you think… does it matter that she’s a woman?
If she was a man I wouldn’t said ‘man’, Thats the problem nowadays, people like you in the politically correct brigade interpreting remarks and turning them into something they don’t mean.
*would have said man*
I’d love to see Vincent Brown do a “interrogation” of that woman, I’d say he have her squirming !!!
Let Mary Lou run the country. She’s got my vote. Not afraid to say what the rest are!
Seriously? I suppose you’ll be heading with her and SF to that welcome home party planned in Donegal this weekend so. I’m not saying she isn’t right to take Rehab to task, but if we are talking morals here, make sure your own doorstep is clean first…
her and Pearse will be getting the votes.
On an other note for someone earning €250,000 you would think she could get a decent haircut and am not going to get started on your wan beside her..rehab indeed.
Senior Management including this Lady in Rehab have necks like Jockeys @*&%$&…..all charity CEO positions should be capped at €125k. I think a lot of them have forgotten the charity bit when they go to work and expect to be paid as if they are working in a private company earning massive profits. We are talking about vulnerable people getting cut after cut in services, disability cuts, mobility cuts from central government. Frontline staff in the CRH and Rehab have been forced to take Public sector pay cuts but at Senior levels they are getting top ups and pay increases. I think this Rehab board need to resign like the CRH and the government steps in and pulls the plug on this gravy train
All of this is just appalling, but as we know these people have brass necks and an incredible sense of entitlement. They don’t mind the public exposure of their obscene earnings even if Kerins fought against it being made public. As was shown by the CRC episode and the various revelations there, the parties involved just keep their heads down and wait for the conflict to blow over. They keep their bumper salaries and pensions. No one is called to account. This is the country we live in. What are this woman’s qualifications to be paid as head of a not-for-profit organisation on this scale? Why does she sit on so many state boards? Why does she believe that she is worth it?
Social welfare is paid by tax payer…. Rehab funded by tax payer…. One gets pay increase…. The other gets decrease…. Now Miss, which one pays you ?….
Oh, so she’s a Miss. And there was I pitying her husband.
Shinner is outraged, stop the press.
Mary Lou is outraged 25 times a day.
The local elections are starting early.
I’m no fan of hers either. I shudder to think she’s next in line for the poisoned chalice that is SF. Hopefully, she’ll drink it. I’d much prefer Pearse Doherty to take over. He’s tolerable.
That’s like saying you’d prefer athletes foot to halitosis
“Mary Lou is outraged 25 times a day”
Bit rich coming from yourself Seanie. How many hours per day do you spend on here and on Twitter voicing your outrage?
SeanieRyan – Headline – he defends his FF Hierarchy Colleague – Angela Kerins of – stunning bias Seanie – the man who spend so much time attacking Shatter & Callinan , suddenly changes tack when confronted with his FF Party Hack status of defending Bertie’s great friend Angela , who earns more the President Obama ?
C’mon Seanie – show us that you are a decent fellow please and not just a FF Troll please ?
Is that Cecilia commenting ?
Read the same Pierse’s comments about a welcome home party for the Hyde Park bombing suspect.
Politics is not a popularity or likeability contest.or at least it should not be
Just doing her job not lining the pockets of family & friends like a FF TD would do once elected.
And sure why not!
Ha ha Seanie! Another one of your “inner circle” caught with their snout in the trough of public money!! Greedy little pack of fianna fail pigs! I spit on ye!
Mary Lou. No better girl to get stuck in to these parasites.
She doesn’t decide her salary? Well she’s not exactly turning it down !
A Shinner shocked now that is shocking. She was not shocked, however, when her IRA compatriots were blowing its fellow citizens apart.
Let it go you’re obsessed and I fear it’s making you mentally unstable
A Patrick or as you now call yourself Patricia Lyons – another banned right wing Troll back in action !
How many times were you banned Patsy ?????
Patrick have you not packed your bags yet for that glorious kingdom to the east?
Ms. Kerins is defending the indefensible, and to use Mary-Lou’s terminology – “that jars with me”. However, what also jars with me is this faux outrage coming from the very well renumerated, expensed and pensioned politicians that comprise the Public Accounts Committee. The tables could be turned there and it would be equally valid in my view.
Not detracting from the original issue here, and that is the outlandish pay for those Rehab execs, but come on, Pot – kettle – black
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*Kerins
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To the window
To the wall
McDonald really let herself down here I thought. She came across as really petty and aggressive.
Good job done by Mary Lou on behalf of the people.
Kerins takes her apart imo
I think you need to look at this again. I never thought I’d say this – but ML Mc D did a good job there.
Lolz ur mixing them up Bolo! Kerins is the one with Joe Elliott’s barnet.
Exactly . How much were lawyers and PR people paid to come up with this sh-te talk? That money came from the state and charity donations whatever she says.
Big difference to being a CEO of a multi national profit organisation that is answerable to shareholders vs a charity which exists for a cause and should operate in good faith with its donators. A CEO salary for a multinational Pharma company could feasibly be 300k, whilst that of a charity should be no more than 70k and within reason.
With all that money you’d think a hairdressers would be a good investment!!!
Mary-Lou will get her yet !!!!
Ironic that the Public Accounts Committee do not get to the real issues and look at the value Rehab is providing to the disabled in Ireland for the money provided by the taxpayer. They have a well managed, respected and internationally recognised organisation. Much simpler to criticise the CEO. Most organisation would be happy to have a leader with the skill that she has shown to drive the organisation forward.
SF / IRA I assume have no comment on today’s jailing of their laundry man. Who was this money divided out to or is it part of their “average wage”!
@Butterbean, my thoughts exactly!
@msmac to which of my comments does your “my thoughts exactly” comment refer.
Cause if its the first one that would be awesome:)
This womans earns in 1 working day roughly the same amount a person on Disability Allowance would recieve in almost 5 weeks. And she works for a publically funded, not for profit charity ? Words fail me.
Any 1 that gives to these charities is an ape plain an simple!
Great to see this line of questioning from a very capable woman against a very incapable woman who is bleeding this country dry.
Sociopaths in command, as usual, until people wake up to their prevalence (5% apparently!), and as usual they are always right and don’t really understand why they should be challenged. Wake up folks
Sociopaths in command, as has become the norm, until people wake up to their prevalence (5% apparently!), and as usual they are always right and don’t really understand why they should be challenged. Wake up folks :-)
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