PLOS Biology: What Killed the Woolly Mammoth
Friday April 4, 2008
An open source (yes, indeed, you can read it too simply by clicking on the link) article in PLOS Biology this week addresses the issue of what killed the woolly mammoth: a population weakened by climate change at the end of the Pleistocene was finished off by human predation:
Nogués-Bravo D, Rodríguez J, Hortal J, Batra P, Araújo MB (2008) Climate Change, Humans, and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth. PLoS Biology 6(4): e79 (scientific article)
Sedwick Caitlin (2008) What Killed the Woolly Mammoth? PLoS Biology 6(4): e99 (general public summary)
Comments
Interesting Mammoth research. Has the earths polar magnetism been established at the time of extingsion ? Humans may have helped with the mommoths demise; but how were they frozen so quickly also why havn’t frozen humans been found [ other then the alps man ] in places where mammoth have been found? I enjoyed the infomation. Thank you.