Mammoths Research Paper

Mammoths have been extinct for around 11,000 years. In the “Mammoth times” the most common two extinction theory’s are that humans hunted them down and killed all of the remaining Mammoths. The other theory was that the temperatures raised and put the Mammoths into extinction.

In the world there are three main forms of extinction the two are getting hunted or colossal climate change or loss of food. For mammoths the top extinction was loss of food and climate change mammoths where fully adapted to live in an ice age with big tusks to shovel snow away to eat the grass underneath that was the mammoths main food source, they had a thick layer of fat to keep them warm in the freezing conditions, they had a woolly coat for even more warmth and finally they had small ears to keep them warm. Scientists believe that maybe man killed them for food and

Mammoths had anti-freeze blood that supplied them with oxygen at sub zero temperatures. Their long, fluffy, woolly fur kept them warm as well as their blood and their big ears was a way to release heat. The climate is still changing it always up and down even as we speak of centuries and every so often the climate drops so dramatically that an ice age occurs graph 1 proves my answer. It shows that a rise in carbon dioxide changes the cause of the temperature every time the oxygen lowers the temperature rises too. Ice cores also have to do with climate change when ice cores fluctuate the temperature rises leaving the mammoths in terrible conditions. So we are always weary if another ice age occurs. I think that another ice age will probably occur in a couple of centuries since the climate seems quite