Ice Age's Arctic Tundra Lush with Wildflowers for Woolly Mammoths

By Kansas State University on Feb 9, 2014   The Arctic and Alaska Science  

MANHATTAN — A recent study in the journal Nature finds that nearly 50,000 years ago during the ice age, the landscape was not as drab as once thought — it was filled with colorful wildflowers. These wildflowers helped sustain woolly mammoths and other giant grazing animals.