A delicate touch to tell the end of the last
mammoths
.
These behemoths who reigned over several continents for five million years, from the Atlantic coast to the heart of Mexico, deserved such an epitaph.
The obituary stitched with computer-generated images hides a serious scientific investigation.
To discover
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What made this distant cousin of the elephants disappear, whose last representatives bayed at the Siberian crows, at the time when the pyramids were built on the banks of the Nile?
The arsenal of disaster comes from the ground.
Climate change at the end of the last ice age, 15,000 years ago, disrupted the plant cover and grasses of the great steppes that the mammoths were fond of.
But the success of these colossi is not just their finicky mouths.
The woolly mammoths discovered in Changis-sur-Marne bear the scars of another killer: our ancestors.