The lack of water could kill mammoths Island Alaska – Terra Peru

One of the last populations of woolly mammoths in the world could be extinct by the lack of potable water, scientists noted.

The mammoths roamed the island of St. Paul of Alaska in the Bering Sea, until about 5,600 years ago. They never had contact with humans, who arrived in the territory in 1787.

US researchers examined evidence of environmental change and found that the disappearance of primitive animals coincided with a drop in water sources drinking caused by rising sea level in a dry climate.

In a study published Monday by Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, concluded that mammoths may have contributed to their own demise to gather around wells remaining water.

By trampling vegetation, these giants of the Ice Age, accelerated erosion later reduced water supply.