What killed St. Paul’s woolly mammoths?

A woolly mammoth on display in the Royal BC Museum. (Photo by FunkMonk/Wikimedia commons)
What killed the woolly mammoths on St. Paul Island? Thirst. For the first time, scientists have pinpointed the date — 5,600 years ago — and a likely cause of extinction. They believe the environmental changes that killed the animals mirror today’s climate changes.
Six thousand years ago, St. Paul Island looked about the same except for one big difference: There were mammoths