mammoth pine from southern Spain. Photo: Research Institute Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main
Weimar (mammut-newspaper) - The search for plant food mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) are in the Ice Age (Pleistocene) walked up to the South of Europe. Climate change made it possible that these animals could exist in the trunk of the last glaciation of the Pleistocene from about 30,000 to 40,000 years in southern Spain.
found this out by an international research group which has examined fossil remains of four mammoth bulls from this region. This tells the Research Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main. The skeletal remains the four mammoth bulls were in a bog on the 37th Latitude in Padul discovered in Granada. They are considered the southern most mammoth finds in Europe.
Ralf-Dietrich Kahl, head of the research station for Quartärpaläonotologie of the Senckenberg Natural History Society in Weimar, commented that this was proof of global mechanisms, the climate during the Ice Age-regulated and thus have influenced the vegetation so that the mammoths vorfanden far to the south a richly laid table. had
In anatomical terms, the mammoths in southern Spain did not differ from their counterparts in northern regions, says Dick Mol, a Dutch expert for mammals of the Ice Age in Hoofddorp and volunteers of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. Mole is primarily an expert on mammoths.
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