The researchers suggest that woolly mammoths suffered from allergies, which may have hampered their ability to find food, water, and mates.
An international collaborative effort by a team of chemists and zoologists has uncovered clues indicating that woolly mammoth s might have struggled with allergies, contributing to their extinction.
“This was the first study where fragments of immunoglobulins were found in remains tens of thousands of years old,” the study’s first author, Gleb Zilberstein, toldPrevious studies have established that woolly mammoths, distant relatives of today’s elephants, once roamed across North America, Asia, and northern Europe before going extinct roughly 4,000 years ago.
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