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Nature 431, 639-640 (7 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431639a; Published online 6 October 2004
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Palaeontology: Ecology of ice-age extinctions
Abstract
The last ice age saw the extinction of numerous large mammals — but perhaps not as many as was thought. The woolly mammoth survived to much more recent times, and so, it now seems, did the Irish elk.
Sabre-toothed tigers, mastodons, woolly mammoths — these and many other spectacular large mammals are generally thought to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, otherwise known as the last ice age. But it's becoming clear that some of these species clung on tantalizingly close to the present day.
- John Pastor and Ron A. Moen are at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55811, USA..
Email: jpastor@nrri.umn.edu
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