The international group of scientists from the United States and Canada found out that extinct animals of the last glacial era, such as Mammoths and North American horses, have existed much longer than previously thought. This is reported in the article published in the Nature Communications magazine. Briefly about scientific work is described in a press release on PHYS.ORG.
Researchers analyzed soil samples extracted from Canadian permafrost in the Klondike region in Central Yukon. They managed to highlight DNA, which covers the last 30 thousand years. This allowed specialists in detail to recreate communities of prehistoric animals during the transition from Pleistocene to the Holocene 11-14 thousand years ago, when representatives of Megafaun were started.
According to the disclosed results of the analysis, the mammoths and horses were in a sharp decline before the onset of climate instability, but their disappearance was not sudden due to excessive human hunting. And woolly mammoth, and the North American horse still lived on the territory of Yukon only five thousand years ago. Although the mammoths then disappeared completely, the horses are directly related to the modern type of Equus Caballus.