A LARGE set of fossilised mammoth footprints has been discovered that may help solve the mystery of the great beasts’ extinction.
The lack of juvenile footprints suggests that humans were killing woolly mammoths as they spread across North America. Today, African elephant herds that have been heavily poached produce a similar pattern of tracks.
Controversy has long raged over the fate of mammoths, and other large North American animals that had vanished by about 10,000 years ago. Many believe that human hunters wiped the animals out within decades of spreading across the continent. Others blame rapid climate change as glaciers…
