Lack of water likely caused extinction of isolated Alaska mammoths
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 17:11
in Earth & Climate
A remnant population of woolly mammoths on a remote Alaska island was likely pushed to extinction by rising sea levels and a lack of access to fresh water, according to a newly published study. By analyzing layers of a dated sediment core from a lake on St. Paul Island, researchers determined that mammoths went extinct […]