Eons
Season 3 · Episode 37
Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
26th November 2019
10 mins Season 3
Episode 37
Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one of the mysteries about these charismatic megafauna: why do most remains of mammoths found in the fossil record turn out to be male?