All around 12,300 decades back, a relatives established up camp in a marshy, verdant landscape in what is nowadays northwestern Utah. They’d walked some 60 miles to get there, likely lured by the promise of now-extinct huge game like mammoths and camels—and with a plentiful source of duck to continue […]
Mammoths
Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England
Impression: Reproduction of a Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) in the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The exhibit is from 1979, and the fur is muskox hair. watch more Credit: Graphic by Flying Puffin (Inventive Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2. Generic license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2./deed.en). Woolly mammoths may perhaps have walked the landscape […]
Ancient Genes Reveal The Last Mammoths on Earth Were a Sickly Mess
Four thousand yrs ago, the final woolly mammoths quietly died on their final bastion – the isolated Wrangel Island, north of Russia in the frozen Arctic. Their demise was sudden, and odd now, new proof points to the mammoths on their own as partial agents of their possess demise. […]