Sentence examples for mammoth population from inspiring English sources

For the economy as a whole, there will be far fewer workers to produce the goods and services for a still mammoth population.

Siberian Arctic human populations were likely supported by the local mammoth population, which provided humans with food and raw material in the form of mammoth tusks.

In contrast, the St. Paul Island mammoth population apparently died out prior to human arrival due to habitat shrinkage resulting from the post-ice age sea level rise.

Donors were not so forthcoming for a mammoth population-resettlement program that proposed to move people from the drought-prone and crowded north to the west and south, where supposedly surplus lands were available.

But then, starting around 15,000 years ago, mammoth populations in the region plummeted.

She notes that genetic analysis could determine if inbreeding was truly occurring in the last mammoth populations, and that such studies are "now becoming technologically possible".

However, recently, it was found that some mammoth populations continued to exist in central and southern Western Siberia until ca. 11,100 10,200 BP. 'Normal' size mammoths became extinct in mainland Siberia at the Pleistocene Holocene boundary, ca. 9700 BP.

Eleftheria Palkopoulou, a geneticist who has analyzed mammoth DNA but was not involved in the new study, says this scenario fits with her research that shows mammoth populations shrank about 20,000 years ago.

"During the last ice age, between about 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, there were substantial movements of mammoth populations - European populations being replaced by waves of migration from the east, for example," he said.

Curious as to how widespread the neck rib abnormality might have been among North Sea mammoth populations, researchers led by paleontologist Jelle Reumer of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam in the Netherlands combed local museum collections looking for rib facets on mammoth neck bones that had been dredged from the North Sea.

The woolly mammoth may have entered these southern areas during times when Columbian mammoth populations were absent.