Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England
Researchers trace the age of a rib fragment of the Mount Holly mammoth
2021-03-04
(Press-News.org) Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a Dartmouth study published in END
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[Press-News.org] Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New EnglandResearchers trace the age of a rib fragment of the Mount Holly mammoth