Sentences with phrase «mammoths during the last ice age»

Ice Age paleontologist Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke of the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar recorded the maximum geographic distribution of the woolly mammoth during the last Ice Age and published the most accurate global map in this regard.

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Harvard University's George Church, the lead researcher working to de-extinct the mammoth, says that bringing back the giants could help convert the Arctic tundra back to grasslands that existed during the last ice age.

Mammoths and other creatures that grazed arctic environments during much of the last ice age were eating more than just grasses, a new study suggests.

The surface of a mammoth tooth looks like a washboard, perfect for grinding grasses that grew during the last ice age.

«The recent research findings show that during the last Ice Age, mammoths were the most widely distributed large mammals, thus rightfully serving as a flagship species of the glacial era,» according to Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke, an Ice Age researcher at the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar.

Man's role in the extinction of the wooly mammoth and other megafaunal species of the last ice age is smaller compared with the effects of rapid climate - warming events that occurred during the era.

«These grasses were food for mammoths during the end of the last ice age,» Dr. Walter Anthony said.