[Rockhounds] Study argues, mammoths survived in north-eastern Siberia up to 7, 300 years ago

[Paul]

Mammoths and other large animals survived in the north much longer than 
previously
believed. New DNA research indicates that the climate, not humans, led 
to the demise
of these large creatures, Norway Science, Jan, 2022
https://sciencenorway.no/animal-kingdom-arctic-genetics/mammoths-and-other-large-animals-survived-in-the-north-much-longer-than-previously-believed/1968247

The open access paper is:

Wang, Y., Pedersen, M.W., Alsos, I.G., De Sanctis, B., Racimo, F., Prohaska,
A., Coissac, E., Owens, H.L., Merkel, M.K.F., Fernandez-Guerra, A. and
Rouillard, A., 2021. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient
environmental genomics. Nature, 600(7887), pp.86-92.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04016-x

It concludes that mammoths survived in continental northeast Siberia until
7,300 BP; North America until 8,600 BP; and the Taimyr Peninsula as late as
3,900 BP.

Yours,

Paul H.