Adopted mammoth fell 15,000 years ago
A few days ago, Mat Wooller had news about a woolly mammoth my friend LJ and I “adopted” last October. “You’ve got one of the youngest ones,” said Wooller, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and inventor of the Adopt-A-Mammoth program. Wooller’s goal is to carbon-date the 1,500 mammoth fossils that rest in drawers […]