Scientists retrace steps of Ice Age mammoth over its entire lifetime

Seeing some comments about how they didn’t actually trace the steps. Okay, yeah, they didn’t. But what they did do is so damn cool — science at its best. I’m kind of in awe that we roughly know what happened in a mammoth’s life from 17,000 years ago — including [spoiler alert] the fact that it eventually starved to death at 28.

You can find the map showing the path of the mammoth from the paper here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;sci&#x2F;373&#x2F;6556&#x2F;806&#x2F;F2.large.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;sci&#x2F;373&#x2F;6556&#x2F;806&#x2F;F2.l...</a>

They didn&#x27;t retrace <i>steps</i>, they analyzed isotopes concentrations in different parts of tusks, which were constantly growing through the lifetime of the mammoth.

They do this to a lesser degree with human teeth and bones, but not with a precision of long, continuously growing tusk.In addition human tarter reveals diet.

I still wonder if recreating mammoths will ever be possible, and of course if you could, would they survive in the modern climate in the wild.