Boys will be boys, mammoths will be mammoths, and boy mammoths will be both, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Scientists from the Stockholm University surveyed the remains of 98 mammoths—bones, tusks, teeth—and found “a significant skew towards males.
” At one site in South Dakota, for example, of the 14 well-preserved mammoths found, just one was female. Why? “In many species, males tend to do somewhat stupid things that end up getting them killed in silly ways, and it appears that may have been true for mammoths also,” Love Dalén, an evolutionary biologist from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, told the New York Times.While older females were more…
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