Assertion: woolly mammoth | /r/CapableOf | become extinct
Facets:
value: during lower holocene
type: TEMPORAL
value: from disease
type: OTHER
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: years ago
type: TEMPORAL
value: from hunting
type: CAUSE
value: because of abrupt climatic deterioration
type: CAUSE
value: due to climate change
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Believed to be closely related to the modern-day elephant, the woolly mammoth remained in the wild until roughly 1700 BC when it became extinct.
text: Some scientists believe that that the woolly mammoth may have become extinct due to climate change which may have caused a lack of food.
text: Due to the large area of Siberia, that woolly mammoths survived into more recent times cannot be completely ruled out, but all evidence indicates that they became extinct thousands of years ago.
text: Why did the Woolly Mammoth become extinct?
text: A definitive reason for why they became extinct is not available; however most scientists believe climate change caused its demise.
text: The Woolly Mammoth was a prehistoric animal who became extinct about 4,000 years ago when the last ice age ended.
text: While most woolly mammoths became extinct 12,000 years ago, some managed to survive on Wrangel Island, a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean, up to about 4,000 years ago.
text: Woolly mammoths, like many giant animals of the Ice Age, became extinct at the end of the last ice age, between 12,000 and 4,000 years ago (Yukon Beringia detailed fact sheet - Woolly Mammoth), depending on the location.
text: Believed to be closely related to the modern-day elephant, the woolly mammoth remained in the wild until roughly 1700 BC when it became extinct.
text: 9 Cuvier thought the woolly mammoth became extinct because of abrupt climatic deterioration and were buried by local flooding or other events.10
text: According to Discovery, there are many theories as to why the woolly mammoth became extinct, from disease and hunting to some sort of natural catastrophe.
text: Woolly mammoths mostly became extinct at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago.
text: Mammoths spread to Europe and Asia, and Mammuthus meridionalis went over the Bering Strait to North America about 1.8 million years ago, (the woolly Mammoth went over much later) and became extinct during lower Holocene, probably exterminated by prehistoric humans who hunted them.