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Tracking a Woolly Mammoth with Laser Ablation

Posted by Todd Maxwell on Oct 6, 2021 11:25:45 AM

 

Imagine going on a safari 17,000 years in the past. An international team of researchers was able to do just that by reconstructing the lifetime movement patterns of an ancient woolly mammoth. Mammoths went extinct at the end of the last ice age, so little is known about how these prehistoric giants lived—and died. But thanks to modern analytical techniques, we can begin to understand the habits of these long-gone creatures and compare them to animals still alive today.


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Tags: Laser Ablation, Elemental Imaging, LA-ICP-MS, Geology, isotope ratio analysis, Paleontology