When mammoths strolled Vancouver Island
Mammoths, the enormous pre-historic glacial epoch cousins of the modern-day elephant, have actually constantly been comprehended to have actually occupied parts of British Columbia, however the concern of when has actually constantly been a bit woolly.
Now, a brand-new research study from Simon Fraser University has actually provided researchers the clearest image yet when the huge mammals strolled Vancouver Island.
As part of SFU scientist Laura Termes' PhD and released previously this month in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciencesthe research study took a look at 32 believed massive samples gathered on Vancouver Island. Of those samples, simply 16 were considered appropriate for radiocarbon dating.
The youngest sample was discovered to be around 23,000 years of ages and the earliest end...