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The Skeptics Guide #865 - Feb 5 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Woolly Mammoths D and A, and What They Learned From This

The woolly mammoth survived even longer than we previously thought based upon the fossil record. They found that woolly mammoths d anda as much as seven thousand years later than the fossil record indicates in those regionsos, five thousand 700 years ago. The how do they date? How do they date the d and athat? They're dating the they don'tdate the d and a. They date the sample. It allowing us to reconstruct fossil or ancient ecosystem wh wih an entirely new lens with much greater detail.

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