Scientists might have finally figured out what killed off the last woolly mammoths

in science •  8 years ago 


As some of you may know (hopefully) the last woolly mammoths lived on "St. Paul Island" and were relatively safe compared to most animals. After studying insects that lived near them they discovered that near when they went extinct the island basically ran out of fresh water.

This was likely caused by lack of fresh water. The lack of water was caused by the steady shrinking island (rising sea levels at the time) and a pile up of dead aquatic life degraded the water quality to the point where drinking it would be as deadly as not.

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Are you sure it was St. Paul Island or was it California.

They did live there but this is about one small group (1000-2000) who lived for a hundred years after the others died off

It was a joke: "lack of fresh water" = "California Drought"

But your reply reminds me of a book I read "Eaters of the Dead". And film was based on the book, the 13th warrior or something like that. Away, the novel works around a premise that a small group of neanderthal manage to survive until the viking age.

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