Yesterday’s news that a comet helped kill off the Ice Age’s most glorious creatures reminded us of this groundbreaking 1995 paper from the journal Radiocarbon. While most of the world’s mammoths disappeared long before mankind figured out the rudiments of civilization, a small pack of the elephant-like beasts survived until 2000 B.C. or later. Their […]
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The Mammoths’ Last Stand
July 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on The Mammoths’ Last Stand
Tags:dinosaurs·Ice Age·mammals·mammoths·paleontology·Russia·Wrangel Island
Yet Another Mammoth Fear
February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Yet Another Mammoth Fear
Life was apparently no picnic for the Pleistocene epoch’s woolly mammoths. For starters, they had to be super-wary of where they clomped—one careless step and the tar pits would snag you for all eternity (as well as the eventual edification of schoolchildren). And there were always plenty of saber-toothed tigers lurking about, waiting to snatch […]