{"id":131177,"date":"2016-08-01T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/the-deaths-of-the-last-mammoths.html"},"modified":"2016-08-01T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T03:35:27","slug":"the-deaths-of-the-last-mammoths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/the-deaths-of-the-last-mammoths.html","title":{"rendered":"The deaths of the last mammoths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cautionary &#8212; and remarkably modern &#8212; tale of changing surroundings and ecological damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/08\/the-lonely-thirsty-final-days-of-the-doomed-alaskan-mammoths\/493886\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/VkChoaAJGoCQ32fvW1oiDPkkTbturnNj3CgjMqnU8UCFPGsc69jvmKzqV8-PhNdiydP2B4Uvlk96dopXFQle-mLk9SWVAojUZ_CzZoChZ0m1lkHQ3bBLCO_h-UY1kUq739NEuXo4pijHL6xmOjisWXnAV8zi=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/08\/the-lonely-thirsty-final-days-of-the-doomed-alaskan-mammoths\/493886\/'>The Lonely, Thirsty, Final Days of the Doomed Alaskan Mammoths<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nScientists finally worked out what killed a group of the creatures stranded for millennia on an island no bigger than Disney World.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/LR1po4vp3Xq'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cautionary &#8212; and remarkably modern &#8212; tale of changing surroundings and ecological damage. The Lonely, Thirsty, Final Days of the Doomed Alaskan Mammoths Scientists finally worked out what killed a group of the creatures stranded for millennia on an island no bigger than Disney World. 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