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Why Are Mammoths Extinct?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Why Are Woolly Mammoths Extinct?

Two kids want to know why woolly mammoths died out around 11,000 years ago. Professor Ross Blechman has spent a large part of his career trying to answer that question. He says there's two major ideas: climate did it and the population just couldn't survive. The idea is that a lot of these big guys were adapted to ice age conditions.

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