Scientists: Mammoths became extinct due to lack of drinking water – GORDONUA.COM

The last mammoths died out because of the shortage of drinking water. This is the conclusion the American scientists reported on the PNAS website.

One of the last groups of mammoths lived on the island of St. Paul Alaska. She died about 5.6 thousand years ago.

The researchers believe that the main cause of death of animals was global warming, draining freshwater lakes and consequently lishivshee mammoth water. Surviving on the lake island gradually merged with the ocean, the level of which rose due to the melting of glaciers.

Mammoths began to coalesce around a small number of the remaining lakes, which led to a severe shortage of food and water for the animals and for their rapid extinction.

In 2015, an international team of scientists has presented the complete genome of the woolly mammoth, which allowed them to reconstruct the history of the species and to explain the extinction of the last populations of animals.