AAE The Last Mammoth

Journey to Wrangel Island, where woolly mammoths outlasted their mainland cousins by 6,000 years, roaming the Arctic as the Egyptians built the pyramids. They vanished around 2000 BC—but why? This video skips the old “thick skin stopped humans from killing megafauna” idea—it’s irrelevant and should not influence ones belief whether or not man killed megafauna. Saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, and other megafauna lacked thick hides yet still died off 12,000 years ago, so what gives? We dive into inbreeding, isolation, and catastrophe theories instead. Plus: De-Extinction: Cloning mammoths—scientists are decoding their DNA to bring them back. Extinction secrets and a wild future await!