Mammoths still roamed Earth when Egypt’s pyramids were built
While it is easy to imagine that giant Ice Age mammals such as the woolly mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros died out long before the advent of human civilization, research in recent years has shown that these animals survived much longer than anyone had realized.
Previous studies had indicated that while most mammoths likely died out around 10,000 years ago, a few had managed to survive in small populations on remote islands off the coast of Siberia.
There had even been suggestions that some of these isolated island populations had held on until around 4,000 years ago.
Now though, the results of a ten-year study involving the collection and analysis of 535 samples of sediment and permafrost from Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia have yielded evidence to suggest that mammoths had still been roaming the wilds of mainland Siberia as recently as 3,900 years ago.
This means that these animals were still around after the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The researchers also determined that the woolly rhino had survived until around 9,600 years ago.
The findings involved analyzing traces of animal DNA found preserved in the sediment.
“An individual animal continuously spreads DNA throughout its lifetime in its dung, urine, epidermal cells, and hair, containing millions of DNA segments as it wandered across its full geographic range, but only left one skeleton upon its death, which is far less likely to have been preserved, recovered and dated,” said study co-author Yucheng Wang from the University of Cambridge.
“By sequencing only a few of these DNA molecules preserved in the environment, we can identify its existence and range. It is therefore not surprising that sedimentary DNA could produce a later and more accurate extinction estimate.”
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“Yucheng Wang from the University of Cambridge.” Yucheng Wang is a very courageous SCIENTIST. For he just moved the SCIENCE of ‘prehistoric animals’ to the times of animals and humans described in ‘The Holy Bible’!!!
Have a very good day, Jerry
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Andy
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Err…okay, so what?
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Jerry Krause
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Hi MattH,
Maybe you can explain to Andy; “So what?”
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jac
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How could ancient native american tribes have killed and eaten mammoth if they weren’t around at the same time
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“The OBVIOUS can be the most difficult to SEE (OBSERVE)!” (Jerry Krause)
The image that introduces this article cannot be a photo and it sure doesn’t look like a painting. But I finally remembered what many know that John James Audubon, the naturalist, had done!!! Hence, we (I) cannot conclude anything is an actual PHOTO. And the artist who created this image certainly should have been credited.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
And I now SEE I though have credited the artists AS
being CREATIVE because I am reasonably sure he never actually saw a MAMMOTH!!!
Have a good day, Jerry
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