<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/52682c82-bdb2-4bd1-bd1e-b91ba4512b6e/671A48FD-374B-44F4-ACFE-2E880CF94848/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><SPAN>Study: Humans Didn't Wipe Out Mammoths</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><P><STRONG>May 10, 2006 —</STRONG> Recent evidence suggests people may not deserve the blame for the wave of animal extinctions — which included the woolly mammoth, wild horse <I>Equus ferus</I>, and saber-toothed tiger — that arrived with the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/14D9942E-5D19-41C9-84CF-4F1EE17E0D14" alt="Painting of Woolly Mammoth" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><P>Many experts have argued that over-hunting caused by human expansion imperiled these species and others. As woolly mammoth numbers declined in the northern latitudes, the theory goes, vegetation patterns changed to favor small animals over big grazers and their predators.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><P>But the authors of a new study say the die-offs were due to a more complex sequence of events between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago, when the chilly Pleistocene yielded to the balmy Holocene era of today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"><P>The fossils suggest that people entered the region around 12,300 years ago, apparently crossing a land bridge over the Bering Strait.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/10/woollymammoth_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20060510070930"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/671A48FD-374B-44F4-ACFE-2E880CF94848/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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