When flowers died out in Arctic, so did mammoths
Genetic analysis finds vegetation change around same time as megafauna extinction
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WHERE GIANTS WALKED Mammoths may have roamed steppes dominated by flowering herbs instead of grasses as previously thought, an analysis of ancient plant DNA suggests. Pictured is a mammoth tusk from the Logata River region in Russia.
Per Möller/Johanna Anjar