[Thermalseeker]

It says the particular mammoth carcass they are discussing has been dead for 27,000 years.

The wife and I visited the mammoth dig site in SE Wyoming two years ago. Interesting place. Apparently, it was a wallow hole for both Columbian and Woolly mammoths, but only for the boys. Of the 50 carcases or so found at the site, none are female. As I recall, the tour guide said the last mammoths roamed the earth about 12,000 years ago.

[myprecious]

Interesting place. Apparently, it was a wallow hole for both Columbian and Woolly mammoths, but only for the boys.

That explains the extinction part.....

[Protagoras]

As I recall, the tour guide said the last mammoths roamed the earth about 12,000 years ago.

And if a tour guide said it, it's true.

[FastCoyote]

"As I recall, the tour guide said the last mammoths roamed the earth about 12,000 years ago."

Which is when the Indians showed up. There are even rumors that our early settlers found a few.

[DavemeisterP]

I read a Louis La'More book several years ago that had them in the story and mentioned in the back several sightings of mammoths in the Rocky Mountains in the 1800's. One was by a painter that painted them, hairy. He had never been to a circus, or, if my memory serves me right, would NOT have known that they were hairy. I think that they have only been known to be hairy in the last 100 years or so. Which brings me to an interesting point, you're welcome to fill in the rest.