Danish Research Gives New Details On Ice Age Extinction

[Oxytropidoceras]

A 'smoking gun' on Ice Age megafauna

extinctions, Science Daily, University of

Copenhagen, February 5, 2014.

http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/02/a-smoking-gun-on-the-ice-age-megafauna-extinctions/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205133252.htm

Woolly Mammoths' Taste For Flowers May

Have Been Their Undoing by Geoff Brumfiel

Morning Edition, NPR, February 06, 2014

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/05/272094425/woolly-mammoths-taste-for-flowers-may-have-been-their-undoing

Danish research gives new details on Ice Age

extinction (Researcher's groundbreaking theory

may have solved a more than 10,000 year old

mystery) The Copenhagen Post, Jan. 6, 2104

http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-research-gives-new-details-on-ice-age-extinction.8527.html

Willerslev, E., J. Davison, M. Moora, and

many others, 2014, Fifty thousand years of

Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet.

Nature. vol. 506, no. 7486, pp. 47–51.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7486/full/nature12921.html

Ours,

Paul H.

[Scylla]

I saw this as Mammoth diet mystery solved:

http://www.ecanadanow.com/science/2014/02/06/the-mystery-of-woolly-mammoths-diet-solved/

[Gizmo]

On Yahoo - http://news.yahoo.com/disappearance-wildflowers-may-doomed-ice-age-giants-231025081.html

[MarkGelbart]

It's a wild exaggeration to call this a smoking gun.

These animals were not picky eaters. The stomach contents of woolly mammoths have been found to contain mostly grass and willow twigs. There's no evidence they were dependent entirely upon forbs and they did survive when forbs supposedly became rare in the landscape during the LGM.

Scientists have no way of determining the exact abudance of individual species of plants so I call BS on this study.