What Killed the Mammoths? Could It Have Been a Killer Plague?
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
This BioBulletin Web site takes an in-depth look at attempts to answer the question of what killed off the woolly mammoth. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists. The Introduction explains why the woolly mammoth's extinction is particularly puzzling and the thought process that led Ross MacPhee to investigate whether a highly lethal infectious disease was responsible. Tusks on the Tundra covers the 18-day expedition MacPhee and others took north of the Arctic Circle, hunting for mammoth bones and teeth in the soggy tundra. Hyper disease Hypothesis examines this and other hypotheses, such as climate change and over-hunting, as reasons for the mammoths' demise. More on Mammoths provides an in-depth look at what we know about this extinct class of elephants. The Riddle of Mass Extinction examines the reasons why, over the course of life on Earth, many more species have died out than exist at present.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
- SubTopics:
- Animals and Insects
- Collection:
- American Museum of Natural History