It was only 11000 years ago that the last true woolly mammoths died out, close enough to the modern age that humans lived alongside them. But were humans the cause of mammoths' sudden extinction or was climate change to blame?
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# Woolly Mammoths: The Extinct Giants That Roamed the Ice Age
Josh and Chuck dive deep into the fascinating world of woolly mammoths, exploring how these magnificent shaggy elephants lived, thrived, and mysteriously disappeared from Earth. They unpack the woolly mammoth's incredible adaptations to the ice age—from their unique double-layered coats and special hemoglobin to their surprising diet of grasses on the mammoth steppe—while also examining why these creatures vanished around 4,000 years ago. The episode balances two competing theories: climate change that shrunk their habitats versus the overkill hypothesis that humans hunted them to extinction, ultimately landing on a both/and conclusion that neither theory fully explains the mystery.
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