The last of the mammoths | Natural History Museum

[@thisisarandomstring]

The last mammoths survived until 4000 years ago by when Egyptians had already started building pyramids. They WERE with us.

[@andersonbridgelal8980]

Any mummified mammoths found in Egypt?

[@thisisarandomstring]

@@andersonbridgelal8980 lol had there been air transport between Siberia and Egypt 4K years ago.

[@nohbuddy1]

@@thisisarandomstring what

[@21222324asdruval]

I know, it is unbelievable, the Egyptians could have used mammoths to build the Giza and more piramyds but the wrangell island is far away from the desert of Egypt, lol.

[@Randomname235]

Actually it was 3,500 years ago search it up

[@dogonline1804]

Rip Mammoths since whenever to whenever

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I love how much you guys at the NHM are focusing on mammoths. They must have been amazing.

[@blacquesjacques7239]

Leila Smith Or they are expecting an ice age and plan on replacing the cow with mommoths as a prime food source ? ( Dundun - DUUUNNN)

[@Wildman-lc3ur]

Mammoths were surely amazing mammals

[@tusarindia]

@@blacquesjacques7239 🤔

[@dfadudefarhanadam7643]

Mammoth pet

[@JudgeRhadamanthys]

It’s very sad that such a magnificent species did not survive into modern time.

[@jaedenlyons]

Very close too! Only 4,000 years ago, almost seems like they would be around today

[@21LAZgoo]

i think they survived into previous “modern times” so to say

[@IndriidaeNT]

Woolly mammoths are one if my favorite prehistoric mammals after the giant ground sloth, Smilodon and glyptodont.

[@PlainsPup]

0:05 - I think it's a bit misleading to say that for "much of" the 500,000 woolly mammoths were around, they were overlapping with humans. Humans didn't leave Africa until ~50,000 years ago, so for ~90% of the woolly mammoths history, it did not face human predation. Mammoths and other Pleistocene megafauna survived many cooling and warming cycles, but died out in the most recent one (12,000 years ago) when humans came into the picture. They also died out on Wrangel Island only 4,000 years ago, again when humans showed up. Changes in climate may have stressed these and other megafauna, but I think ultimately it was human overhunting that led to their demise.

[@mr10tomidnight]

I thought the reason why they finally died out was due to inbreeding.For 6,000 years after all the other mammoths vanished there were just a few hundred of them left on that little island making them an endangered species.If you have an endangered species that only number a few hundred animals with no where to go and 6,000 years of these few hundred animals breeding with each other sooner or later all the animals will be related to each other and from that point on they are just inbreeding.The Heath Hens became extinct to inbreeding and the Isle Royal Wolf after 40 years of those animals being the same decendants of those few wolves that crossed the ice to reach Isle Royal the animals are sick and weak due to them inbreeding and will likely disappear from Isle Royal.

[@lilaclizard4504]

There's also the vegetation changes that occur once their numbers start to drop. The video suggests that the forests caused their food to run out, but evidence suggests it was probably the other way around & that the loss of mammoths caused the forests to grow. So humans are hunting them causing numbers to drop & range decrease or feeding behaviours change to avoid human areas, which leads to available food in future years decreasing, which leads to further decreases, which leads to humans travelling further into their new territory to hunt them & so a vicious circle is formed (plus of course the added heat is making things worse as they now exert themselves trying to escape human roundups)

[@TWOCOWS1]

Not correct. Human doesn't mean Homo Sapiens alone. The Neanderthal was around in Europe and northern Asia, as early as 400,000 ago, and before that, the Homo Erectus. They were all humans, albeit, not of our own Homo Sapiens line. (By the way, the Homo Sapien remains found in Israel date to at least 90,000 years ago. "We" had left Africa at least for 90,000)

[@kakashi76767]

Think about how much food a mammoth would provide. The human population was not so large at that time, especially after many people died after the climate change. Also, you might not realize that 140 species of mammals died right after the change of climate. There is no way humans could have possibly hunted all those species to extinction!! These animals were too intelligent and too large for humans to wipe out with only spears and primitive bows. I believe human hunting could only have finished off a nearly extinct species, especially since large scale agriculture was booming after the warming. Yet all of those species survived previous climatic changes. Geologic evidence points to a meteor or comet strike or strikes. The warming also caused great flooding, especially in the Americas, where the most extinctions occurred. A great deal of ice melted in a very short time, and that would be explained by a celestial object hitting the already thawing ice that covered all of Canada and the Northern US at the time. Satellite images show that a previously undiscovered giant crater exists near Quebec. There is even more evidence supporting a comet strike. Listen to and read the works of guys like Graham Carlson and Randall Carson. I think the overhunting idea is mostly political, furthering the narrative that humans have always destroyed nature, and we haven't done so until recently, and the damage is not as great as people think. Our ancestors were too wise to destroy 140 species of mammals that would be a constant food source, and even if they were that foolish, there is no fucking way that they were capable of it, considering their relatively low population and limited technology.

[@TWOCOWS1]

oh the "climate change"! sorry, i forgot that the Democrats were even found in those days to do the "climate change" thing

[@chinchinovskypole]

Absolutely fascinating!!!!! Thank you for the wonderful material!

[@french_2049]

Are we going to ignore the fact that the Ukraine is water at 2:30

[@minebrosteaex1096]

lmao

[@pacificswell]

Doggerland, google it.

[@nilihcrevo9820]

@@pacificswell ain't doggerland is near Britain and Europe mainland?

[@biggycheese4443]

@@pacificswell thats in the north sea u dumbo

[@JJ-oq3tz]

The Woolly Mammoths are one of my favorite Ice Age animals and they are very special to the Ice Age animals!!!

[@bh-ti3cu]

I like mammoths very much and thanks for NHS for doing this video

[@bordaz1]

this makes a lot of sense. If they were anything at all like elephants, mammoths would need an enormous amount of grassland to thrive. A widespread change to that ecosystem would be all that was necessary to doom them. Hunting? Sure, but how many Homo Sapiens people that area even today? Siberia isnt exactly Macau or the Netherlands!

[@21LAZgoo]

well, humans were killing mammoths 45000 or more years ago in a part of siberia that is in the arctic circle

[@potatounicorn7700]

Idk but I am really into this, watched like 26 vids about this, still going. And I'm also very late with these videos...

[@hectorvaleriano1266]

Potato Unicorn same 😂😂 i love wooly mammoths

[@AceofDlamonds]

Wikipedia article brought me here. Lonely elephants.

[@blacquesjacques7239]

Trees wiped out the Mammoth

[@Hexa9501]

ironic

[@axisbreaker5892]

Why not eat the tree? Modern day elephant can eat leaves and fruits on trees.

[@obamium9692]

@@axisbreaker5892 I don’t think it’s gonna be easy to adapt yourself into eating only leaves immediately Also there’s always gonna be the large tree trunk left The best solution would probably for the mammoths to push down the trees before they grow into full size and eat the grass

[@johnguerin730]

A balanced reasoning as to their demise. Thanks

[@bh-ti3cu]

They are very special and beautiful

[@IndriidaeNT]

The Woolly mammoth is cool and I like that this video used archival footage from Walking with Beasts.

[@stevemac8956]

How did the mammoth survive the other interglacials?

[@llad]

stevemac they went through at least four major continental glaciations/ interglacial periods during the Pleistocene with no problem. It was only when CroMagnon shows up with better hunting weapons that they went extinct.

[@21LAZgoo]

@@llad they had big population declines whenever there were sudden changes in climate

[@tapuout101]

There were millions of Buffalo grazing across the US. I dont see them running out of food.

[@21LAZgoo]

well if you have multiple come timpacts around the globe u can get a mass extinction event which can be bigger than any that occurred in 5 million years, which is what happened to these guys and the sabertooths and almost happened to us but fortunately we still here

[@stevenwinterhill6647]

Incredible video!! 😊

[@michelletong1976]

The oldest tree 🌲 was 853 years old when the mammoths 🦣 went extinct

[@ma.angelaflorentino3402]

i miss mammoths😢

[@Kevin-p2l5b]

Okay.

[@insertuserhere6403]

Everyone serious about mammoths while I’m just here for school 😳

[@Hexa9501]

same :/

[@insertuserhere6403]

@@Hexa9501 glad I'm not alone

[@Gmal51]

I think if humans did not hunt them To extinction I say wooly mammoths would be everywhere On planet Earth.

[@pedrocampos691]

Walking With Beasts (2001)

[@21LAZgoo]

humans didn’t hunt them to extinction, humans themselves nearly went extinct.

[@rursus8354]

It could be the other way around, judging on African elephants keeping the savanna open: there were no mammoths left to purge the trees and so the mammoth steppe was overgrown with trees.

[@pacificswell]

During the Pleistocene, valleys in areas much like Doggerland, mammoths probably roamed in vast numbers, so I wonder if climate change that melted glaciers kept them secluded by rivers. Essentially, wiping them out by rising seas. Mammoths bones and other fossils are known to be found 5-30 miles offshore.

[@WSFM_Rex]

Younger Drias impact RIP mammoths

[@21LAZgoo]

while it did drastically lower and severely decimate there populations, it didn’t wipe out every single mammoth

[@WSFM_Rex]

@@21LAZgoo yea that coulda been the straw that broke the mammoths back

[@21LAZgoo]

@@WSFM_Rex i think so, the sudden warming events 14600 and 11600 years ago also contributed but i think out of those 3 the start of the younger dryas 12800 years ago was the most devastating

[@tocatube915]

Who else is watching this for school work (or just me)

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

Saying an ancient fossil still smells like fresh hay is a little bit delusional, let's face the truth here

[@aidangm7419]

3:23 Any Echo the elephant fans?

[@user-uo7qz7dw2x]

We should bring back the plants not the animals

[@nevillegiaff93yrsgiaff17]

How long can a human live when frozen

[@southsportsdude]

But, People say humans were killing them, but that isn't right. Scientists didn't figure it out just yet if you guys have them just Get them to work

[@jkdbuck7670]

2:06 it's not every day you get to take a big whiff of a mastadon turd.

[@Bmc728]

Bruh that’s a cyclops with tusks smh

[@Bmc728]

Kobe12 1999 You see here, I was making a joke, and you’re pretty dumb.

[@Bmc728]

Popperteen Boi lmao

[@krmiistudios2479]

One of those mammoths could be Manny

[@Gmal51]

Well if wooly mammoths is there are elephants that are The ancient elephants that are gone so will the elephants today in 2024 when humans hunt them to Extension if we don't stop the me trade.

[@GREYFLWRMUSIC]

Hellmuth

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

I think a giant flood took them all out

[@flor4955]

Nah I believe its due to cataclysmic incident, comets asteriods.

[@2209beata]

And in the near future they will be walking the frozen tundras again

[@Redwazherefanchannel]

Im in2024 now 😊

[@sleepymoose7645]

mammoths ar cold temperature and the spring came out and they ar dead!

[@person390]

Do you really believe there have been recent reports of mammoth stghilting do you think it is true? I find it very laphable. Anyway saw it on KZbin

[@21LAZgoo]

who knows, the last individuals of the ice age steppe bison died out in the yukon only 400 years ago

[@ainuralimbaeva4238]

8 а приветик

[@alexandregaming8889]

the wrangel island mammoth extinct because lac where they driking become more salt and they can’t drink (WARNING IS A THEORY)

[@Allahu_Akbar_the_one]

Typical humans 😂

[@21LAZgoo]

yeah man, it sucks the nuclear war equivalent mass extinction event which occurred wiped out the mammoths and sabertooths and all the other megafauna, but we should be fortunate that we managed to make it through, we ourselves nearly went extinct from it too but fortunately we didn’t.

[@tomasrojas9619]

F

[@karllaur3866]

I bet Mammoths very incredibly delicious.

[@insertuserhere6403]

Wow

[@lakneswarankrishnan7786]

Its not dead its adept and turns into elephant.

[@theloner6063]

No...elephant is a ramification, same as mammoth....

[@reymed1670]

Mexico to lol they never went extinct there are everyday elaphent