Mammoths and other large animals survived in the north much longer than previously
believed. New DNA research indicates that the climate, not humans, led to the demise
of these large creatures, Norway Science, Jan, 2022
[sciencenorway.no]

The open access paper is:

Wang, Y., Pedersen, M.W., Alsos, I.G., De Sanctis, B., Racimo, F., Prohaska,
A., Coissac, E., Owens, H.L., Merkel, M.K.F., Fernandez-Guerra, A. and
Rouillard, A., 2021. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient
environmental genomics. Nature, 600(7887), pp.86-92.
[www.nature.com]

It concludes that mammoths survived in continental northeast Siberia until
7,300 BP; North America until 8,600 BP; and the Taimyr Peninsula as late as
3,900 BP.

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/2022 03:29PM by Paul H..