Climate events let ice age mammoths pass far below the 40 N latitude
Friday, July 10, 2009 - 08:56
in Earth & Climate
Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of Mammuthus primigenius were unearthed in a moor on the 37 N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for mammoths, and for the characteristically dry and cold climate that prevailed during the ice ages in the north of Eurasia...