Mammoths would have lived 4,000 years longer if not for human hunters

Scientists have been debating the cause of the woolly mammoth's death for years.

climate change, when the planet began to warm after the last ice age of about 15,000 yearsSome believe that climate change led to the extinction of mammoths in North America.Some groups of researchers have suggested that this is likely a combination of both causes.

Previous studies have shown that asAfter the planet warmed up after the last ice age, woolly mammoths began to move north - they survived by eating grasses that grow in cold climates. Previous studies have also shown that most of them died out about 11,000 years ago - small foci survived in some isolated areas for several thousand years. It is believed that the last of them became extinct about 4000 years ago.

Now, researchers have created a simulation showing a population of woolly mammoths from about21,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago, the time when it became extinctTo recreate the conditions mammoths faced, the researchers added climate data as well as known data on human hunting.They ran the simulation more than 90,000 times, with small changes in factors that could have led to their demise.

Modeling showed that the most probablethe scenario is related to climate change, forcing mammoths into smaller habitats, and hunters finish them off. The modeling also revealed that it is likely that some of the mammoths in the population survived longer than anticipated in regions that had not yet been explored. Interestingly, the researchers also found that if we exclude human hunters from the simulation, most mammoths would last another 4,000 years.

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