Mammoth Prints
Jul 02, 2020•1 min
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Summary
University of Oregon professor Gregory Rettelak and his students uncovered 117 frisbee-sized mammoth footprints at Fossil Lake, Oregon. Dating back 43,000 years, these tracks, left by a family of Colombian mammoths, provide unprecedented evidence of their social behavior, specifically how they traveled in family units—a detail previously only inferred from elephants.Episode description
What could have left a mysterious set of footprints in Oregon?
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