Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths

Big Hairy Ian writes, quoting the BBC: "A DNA analysis shows that the number of creatures began to decrease much earlier than previously thought as the world's climate changed. It also shows that there was a distinct population of mammoth in Europe that died out around 30,000 years ago. ... Dr Dalen worked with researchers in London to analyse DNA samples from 300 specimens from woolly mammoths collected by themselves and other groups in earlier studies ... [The researchers] speculate that it was so cold that the grass on which they fed became scarce. The decline was spurred on as the Ice Age ended, possibly because the grassland on which the creatures thrived was replaced by forests in the south and tundra in the north."

Comments

Re:It's a conspiracy!

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> point me to the right meme I'm supposed to employ against evil scientists

Try this: Those dumb scientists are blaming climate change for everything, including killing the Mammoths.

Re:It's a conspiracy!

[dreamchaser]

>> point me to the right meme I'm supposed to employ against evil scientists

Try this: Those dumb scientists are blaming climate change for everything, including killing the Mammoths.

It was obviously all the SUV's that Cro Magnons were driving.

I prefer the Bedrock Theory

[GodfatherofSoul]

Their insatiable drive for 24/7 dishwashers eliminated the mammoth's ability to reproduce.

Re:Mammoth burgers

[Piata]

It didn't help the Galapagos tortoises or the Passenger Pigeon.

Well obviously. They were not delicious.

Re:Nonsense

[The Grim Reefer]

We all know they died in Noah's Flood.

I'm pretty sure it was Noah's ark and God's flood.

I wonder if the mammoths had a water bottle in their carry-on, so the TSA wouldn't let them board.

Re:It's a conspiracy!

[OlRickDawson]

Don't forget ColesLaw. It would probably go good with fried wolly mammoth.