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Scientists Rethink What Caused Wooly Mammoths Extinction

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Scientists thought that humans with stone weapons may have caused the disappearance of Ice Age beasts like wooly mammoths. But new research shows that stones were no match for mammoths’ hair and hide.

Jeff St. Clair of WKSU reports.

 

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