Shift in weaning age supports hunting-induced extinction of Siberian woolly mammoths

Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 09:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Chemical clues about weaning age embedded in the tusks of juvenile Siberian woolly mammoths suggest that hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of the elephant-like animal's extinction.

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