PBS Eons: Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game

 

There’s a new episode of PBS Eons.  This one is about male mammoths and their dangerous and mostly solitary existence.

Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one of the mysteries about these charismatic megafauna: why do most remains of mammoths found in the fossil record turn out to be male?

Thanks to TierZoo for helping us out! https://www.youtube.com/tierzoo And thanks to pixel artist Template88 for their excellent work as well: https://twitter.com/Template88

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