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Why Are Mammoths Extinct?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Woolly Mammoths and the Ice Age

Museum of Natural History's Ross McPhee answers your questions about the ice age. The most recent ice age lasted from about 120,000 years ago to something like 15,000 years old. In wintertime right now, at least in this part of the world, we get snow. But as we now are from winter into spring, the amount of snow declines and eventually it's gone.

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