Why mammoths died out by Petra Calovkova

Mammoths lived from about 4.8 million years ago to 4,000 years ago and until now, scientists did not agree on the reason why they died out. There are few options that are being considered. One of them is over-hunting. But that probably was not the real reason for extinction of these big animals, resembling our nowadays elephants. The reason why it is not likely to be over-hunting that killed them all is that they were not the only species dying in that time period. There were also other animals disappearing. But the problem is that there is no evidence of anything that could have caused this to be happening. When for example dinosaurs died out, the reason was large meteorite that caused that we cannot see them running around today. But there is no evidence of anything like that in the time when mammoths disappeared along with other creatures. There were some findings, but still, this question has not been solved yet. It was just recently, in May 2007, that a baby mammoth was found in western Siberia. It is a 6 month old female and her death is dating back about 37 000 years. It was brought to Japan for further tests, so possibly, they will be able to solve this issue of the death of these large and old animals and maybe also other discoveries that might be deduced from testing and observation of this infrequent and valuable finding

by Petra Calovkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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