Being Good Moms Couldn't Save the Woolly Mammoth (VIDEO)

University of Western Ontario

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Western Ph.D. student Jessica Metcalfe discusses the reasons why woolly mammoths roaming the Yukon Territories thousands of years ago waited so long to eat plants and how she and her fellow researchers figured it out.

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