Mammoths might have survived except for bad 'mineral diet'
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 08:50
in Earth & Climate
At the end of the Pleistocene mammoths of Northern Eurasia used to experience chronic mineral hunger. As a result they became extinct due to geochemical stress arising on a background of deep abiotic changes in ecosystems. Most likely they were receiving not enough of essential chemical elements.