{"id":376,"date":"2010-04-17T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:26:21","slug":"mammoths-survived-the-cataclysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/04\/mammoths-survived-the-cataclysm-376.html","title":{"rendered":"Mammoths Survived the Cataclysm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While research into the global cataclysm of roughly 10,000 years ago regularly mentions the extinction of mammoths, it appears<\/a> that pockets of these giant creatures survived until more recent times.<\/p>\n

The core [soil] samples revealed the local Alaskan fauna at the end of the last Ice Age. The oldest sediments, dated to about 11,000 years ago, contain remnant DNA of Arctic hare, bison, and moose; all three animals were also found in higher, more recent layers, as would be expected. But one core, deposited between 10,500 and 7,600 years ago, confirmed the presence of both mammoth and horse DNA.<\/p>\n
The team also developed a statistical model to show that mammoth and horse populations would have dwindled to a few hundred individuals by 8,000 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The range of 7,600 to 10,500 years ago is substantially earlier than the orthodox extinction era of 12,000 years ago. But that date is tied to the faltering ideas of the mammoths suffering from over-hunting, disease or climate change. Some cataclysmic theories are for a more recent period, and consequently this new evidence could potentially be supportive of “alternative” research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While research into the global cataclysm of roughly 10,000 years ago regularly mentions the extinction of mammoths, it appears that pockets of these giant creatures survived until more recent times.
\nThe core [soil] samples revealed the local Alaskan fauna at the end of the last Ice Age. The oldest sediments, dated to about 11,000 years ago, contain remnant DNA of Arctic hare, bison, and moose; all three animals were also found in higher, more recent layers, as would be expected. But one core, deposited between 10,500 and 7,600 years ago, confirmed the presence of both mammoth and horse DNA.
\nThe team also developed a statistical model to show that mammoth and horse populations would have dwindled to a few hundred individuals by 8,000 years ago.
\nThe range of 7,600 to 10,500 years ago is substantially earlier than the orthodox extinction era of 12,000 years ago. But that date is tied to the faltering …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}