Are there pics?
It is less of an anachronism to depict Cleopatra with Brad Pitt than Cheops the Great.
Cleopatra is closer in time to us than she was to Cheops the Great.
Where’s John Hammond?? I want my Jurassic Park and I want it now.
Climate change and gas guzzling SUV’s finally ended them.
This is not news, and I’m unclear why it is presented as such.
There is a reason the “Old World” was ... old ... when the North American continent was wide open and practically empty, and that reason was an Ice Age. Glaciers covered much of what is now the US with ice up to a mile thick only 12,000 years ago.
A successful wooly Mammoth hunt would have been like hitting the Lottery. Lots of meat for the whole tribe ready for preservation. Probably pretty tasty, too. This easy pickens food source would have been tempered by other species that are now extinct as well, notably the Saber Toothed Tiger and the Cave Bear. Either would have resulted in a Bad Day back in the day. They are all extinct now probably due to hunting pressure.
I remember reading this story or a variation of it 10 years or more ago about how mammoths lived until fairly recently.
They just added the line about the Pyramids.
That some of these creatures lived until 500 years ago isn’t news. Seeing “prehistoric” animals gave wing to stories of dragons.
I saw that movie and I think the Egyptian leaders making them build the Pyramids were from Outer space , 10,000 BC (2008)
Correction: “Tasty Mammoths”… at least the indigenous peoples who hunted them to extinction thought so.
The aurochs died out in the 17th c.
Giant deer, giant rats disappeared in Europe shortly after the end of the Ice Age. Some of those rats hung around into historical times.
I read in the book THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS by Rayner Unwin about three of his men, David Ingram, Richard Browne, and Richard Twide, who traveled overland from Mexico to Nova Scotia in ONE YEAR, claimed to have seen elephants in the interior of what is now the US.
Unwin also states that some of the Mayan art has what looks like elephants in it.
I read elsewhere that early explorers found mammoth bones on the surface of the ground, in the Kentucky area.
When giant sphinxes roamed free. Those were the days.
That’s assuming that we’re to believe the orthodox Egyptologists’ timeline for the building of the pyramids and the rest of Egyptian ancient culture.
A big “if”...
“ten-year study “
The result of which is “more $tudy needed”.
...collection and analysis of 535 samples of sediment and permafrost from Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia have yielded evidence to suggest that mammoths had still been roaming the wilds of mainland Siberia as recently as 3,900 years ago.
Adding, but no ping. That site sucks, more clickbait recycled news.
