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  • i doubt humans made the mammoths extinct because there's mixture of animals that are found near mammoths bodies and trees buried under frozen muck.

  • why do you all make it sound bad just cuz humans might have cause the woolly mammoths to die out? without their food, tool, and clothing sources theres no doubt in my mind nobody here would be alive. the past is the past and it formed the future.

  • Dick Cheney killed em off

  • A smaller species of Woolly Mammoth lived on Wrangel Island, this of dwarfed Woolly Mammoth became extinct around 1700BC.

  • up to this moment, I still wonder how the hell they managed to capture the video footage of trees and houses bursting from a nuclear explosion with crisp-crystal-clear definition....

  • it was me so what bitch

  • lol guy the humans killed the mammoths 

  • JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR LIFE

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  • @2011yourlife

    OH, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE...

  • @2011yourlife AND CAPS LOCK MEANS YOU"RE ALWAYS RIGHT AND NOT A DOUCHE. /sarcasm

  • Bob, the guy with the knife, killed the woolly mammoths... 'nuf said

  • Time killed the mammoth. NEW PREHISTORIC CHANNEL would probably appreciate this video.

  • Vinny Scaduto killed the woolly mammoth because so he can get his skinning up in WoW so he can get his hunting up. This makes him feel like a man because he is killing creatures that are very religious. thank you every one for your time any questions or comments about the killings please contact me

  • Vinny Scaduto killed the woolly mammoth i have proof

  • This theory turns into crap when you find out that the Wooly Mammoth survived until 1650 bc on Wrangel Island.

  • Junk science.

  • smart...

  • @Manospondylus you're not the kind of person that thinks a meteor can only kill something if it lands directly on it, are you?

  • I thought we had ancestors living at the same time as the mammoths...what happened to them...or all other life in the area?

  • my thoughts exactly....its actually not a mystery at all. We made them extinct there are mammoth fossils with human spear heads in them. The first people to come to the american continent was in about 11,000 bc and the mammoth became extinct in around 11,100. The mammal didn't have a predisposed fear mechanism of humans therefore making them easy to kill.

  • You know...I wouldn't be surprised if we were the cause! It might be a good thing that they went extinct...I know that sounds bad but look at how we treat elephants now a days...they are going too, guess there's no space for things bigger than us.

  • @osoris48

    While your answer makes logical sense and it a commonly accepted hypothesis other possibilities exist. Still it is the most plausible theory (though a meteorite impact might have helped it along). Very early settlers to North America practiced rather wasteful hunting techniques such as running herd over cliffs.

  • @osoris48

    BC dates don't work that way... you mean 9900 BC. unless humans were time travelers back then.

  • @JJJJZ For Archeological purposes its better to use calibrated radiocarbon dates, rather than conventional uncalibrated radiocarbon dates. The difference is that calibrated dates correspond closer to actual calendar dates. So for example, the date of the Clovis archaeolodical horizon in North America is quoted as around 9000 B.C. (11,000 years ago), it is actually 11,000 B.C. (13,000 years ago) because the date usually quoted is uncalibrated. And no humans weren't time travelers you retard

  • @osoris48 that's just one school of thought amongst many others... to be honest with you its virtually impossible to know how the mammoth vanished

  • @osoris48

    The ones in Eurasia certainly would have, as they lived alongside the Neanderthals the first 120,000 years of their existence, and 20,000 years with humans.

  • @osoris48 I think it was a combination of hunting and the end of the ice made it so the mammoth just could not cope.

  • @osoris48 your comment/logic made me not want to watch the video cuz u already gave me the answer.

    2 things-

    Thank you

    Fuck you

  • drunkencelebrities you are the most retarded person to ever leave a comment. One look at your videos and we all find out your a gay faggy little prick.

  • Why do they always blame it on asteroids? Its always the same theory.

  • haha you are right

  • There are alternative theorys, but we've chosen the asteroids as the choice.

    If we kept saying it was different things, we'd look like idoits who are mumbling Bullsh!t out of our mouths, and science wouldnt look so good

  • u guys r dumb... we have a enormouse fucking hole in mexico oh idk what could that be?!?!??! ok so u think everything gon just die for no reason??!?! wtf do u think happend?!?!??!? hmm?!?!?! exactly stfu u idiots!

  • You stupid religious American's don't half make me laugh.

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  • Loco if you cant win an argument just swear that is so BIG of you child.

    Come back to me when you have actually lived a little, your barely out of kindergarten.

    What is funny is I actually had two guys knock at my door today, (I kid you not) trying to preach to me (did you send them lol) they left giving me a book called What Does The Bible "Really" Teach.

    Weird as I have never knocked on anyone's door telling them how religion is a bag of crap.

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  • OMG I should keep my opinions to myself? That is so rich.

    You do make me smile, as if Religion isnt shoved down everyones throat.

    God botherers like yourself are the worlds worst at pushing there ideas and beliefs on everyone, people like you knock at my bloody door to spread the word of God and push silly leaflets through my letterbox weekly.

    Thank you locosychocrazy for making me smile this morning.

  • Hey!! Fucktard replty to the comment OK!!!! anyways I dont go door to door! Not everyone does that, dumbshit! I dont care what peoples beliefs are, I dont give a fuck about anyone elses ideas or beliefs or opinions! I think people should do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, so therefore I dont go door to door! I dont push anything on anyone, but that ME not my church, ME ME ME!! ok just b/c other people do it doesnt mean everyone does it!!! GET IT RIGHT!!!

  • So when they find life on other planets possible microbacteria on say mars or one of Saturns moons we can basically bin bible then cant we (as who created that life?). Any half intelligent person realises that god was created to explain the unexplainable in the past and for discipline and control

  • no shit!!!! but I wouldnt say "control". Your just some athiest dickwad that feels he has to "save" everyone from "ignorance". dumbshits like you piss me off! I dont push my beliefs on anyone so YOU should learn to keep your worthless opinions to yourself! If you dont believe in god just shut up and if you do just shut up! dont push anything on anyone! simple!! DONT BE IGNORANT!!!!

  • maybe you're the half intelligent person who can't be bothered to find a more complicated explanation?

  • DAYUM

  • ao dumb they probably evolved into elephants and scientists just wont except that

  • Elephants would have branched off and there still would have been woolly mammoths.

    Why are there still apes?

  • Why wouldn't there be apes... we didn't evolve from the apes today, we share common ancestors ... fuck face.

  • "i contend that we are both atheists; i just believe in one fewer god than you do. when you understand why you dismiss all other gods, you will understand why i dismiss yours as well" - Stephen F. Roberts

  • they scincetist still have a mammoth in presvation

  • lol u think gOd made dinos then made a meter go BOOM cuz he wanted to give humans a try lol

  • i thought about that too, like dinos were an experiment.

  • and then god came HAHAHAHAHA

  • llol i agree no such thing as god

  • well you would be wrong cuz i agree that there is no such thing as evolution.. i believe that GOD made everything in the world... from the smallest insect to the whole universe.. also if you think that there is no such thing as GOD your life is and will be miserable.. and you should be thankful for what you got and believe in GOD cuz as i said if you don't your life will be miserable for as long as you will live...

  • lmfao i dont believe in god and my life isnt miserable my life is happy and explain to me how god made the unviverse and give me proof

  • i can not show you visible truth.. but if you read the bible from the beginning to the end you will find all the answers to your questions.. also you said that you are happy an not miserable, well for now yes but later on GOD will turn his face away from you and you will collaps... again read the bible for all of your questions...

  • gay

  • call it what you want i'm sticking to my decision and i'm sorry to say it but GOD will punish you for calling his holly bible GAY..... GOD bless you and i hope you will find the right path...

  • i was calling you gay

  • you got too much time on your hands. you should get a job instead of being a youtube preacher. faggot.

  • shhh.... its gna be ok...

  • isnt god suppose to support you not shun you? i dont believe in god. i also think that mary just got raped in her sleep.

  • anything happened?

  • god put the dinosaurs and the woolly mammoths to trick us. get it right guys

  • lmao

  • ROFL

  • FUCK u

  • it has been my lifes work researching who or what killed the woolly mammoth.read my book Who or what killed the woolly mammoth ,now available in paperback.i have come to the conclusion that it was skip henderson,a homo eructus who enjoyed mammoth stew.

  • u are silly

  • Its true, the ice Age wasn't a long period really compared with the great antiquity of the earth itself and even less with the universe.

    The Ice age in America for instance previous to the Great Wisconsin only lasted oh 70,000 years or so, which is, hey wait a minute, that's 66,000 years older than the earth from a biblical point of view and outdated verses or references from the bible should follow suite, extinction.

    Its a good bedtime story but that's about it really...

  • Should nawh say things lie dat.. some people find it offense because deh believe in deh god....

  • thankyou for being respectful

  • "An extraordinary testimony to the widespread watery destruction of animal life...They are sometimes found in a near-perfect state of preservation, with undigested tropical vegetation in their stomachs." - Earths Most Challenging Mysteries. The "ice age" wasn't a long period, the term is misleading. The earth previous to this brief "ice age" was tropical-like. This rapid freezing put the earth in freezing temperatures. The "ice age" occured nearly 4,400 years, (See: Genesis 7:18, 21).

  • Wolly Bully..

  • good video!

  • What i find funny here is someone is paying a dude well to shoot bullets into sand and then look at the hole it makes lol. wtf im in the wrong profession.

  • i killed those fuckers, with a stick.

  • lmao. a stick? that made me laugh. that was a good one

  • Well... In reality... IT WAS ME!

  • Are scientists and researchers really any use to anybody-fat is bad,no fat is good aspirin is bad , no aspirin is good etc. Is there no definite conclusion to their crap? How could a meteor pick on a particular species? By the by Europeans wiped out wolves and bears on their continent, "discovered" America and proceeded to clear out the large mammals they found including fellow humans. 100yrs from now some bright spark might be asking "Did smoking decimate the Red Indian population".

  • lol you see it wasnt a meteor or anything else that killed the reptile mammals before dinosaurs, that killed the dinos that killed the beasts and later man, it was actually drop pods of mankind coming down for a bit of fun :P

  • The meteor didn't pick on this particular species. They are only profiling the woolly mammoth because it is the most famous of the megafauna. Many other species went extinct around the time that the woolly mammoth did, including other species of mamoth.

  • dude he got a garden shovel diged 1 time and found it OOOH ITS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD idiots the world was made only like 6000 years ago or so i kno because bible

  • lol, carbon dating is very accurate and is evidence the earth is millions of years old, the bible has no evidence, and is therefore wrong

  • So, why weren't human beings extincted by this hypothetical impact? It was only 13 000 years ago. Humans has been around as homo sapiens sapiens for almost 200 000 years.

    I thought that the extinction of the woolly mammoth had already been accounted for in terms of climate change (end of the ice age) and human over-predation? Why are they fucking around with this?

  • It was Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris killed the Mammoths, with a single hyper velocity roundhouse kick.

  • No it was me fools!

  • It's a good thing that another species evolved from the mammoths, I hope this never happens again.

    Anyway... I just think that the early people..or cavemen..or whatever you want to call them, whiped them all out. It was either that, the meteors, or climate change.

  • rofl..

  • I think the Woolly Mammoths died from heart disease and high blood pressure because they were so fat. Americans are headed for the same extinction.

  • LMFAOOOOOO ohh so true lol XD

  • Big Game Killers from Asia overhunted these new creatures when they crossed over to North America.

  • LOL Good one... The hmongs, right?

    (Please don't scold me, I'm no racist, I'm just being funny.)

  • I killed the wooly mammoth!

  • proof of the big bad wolf, at 50 seconds.

  • crap

  • I did the wardrobe for the "mammoth hunters" scene,,,,i was one of the actors as well....

  • i wonder how big there shit was

  • they found trace amounts of meteorite in the tusks of wooly mamoths, i think thats enough proof.

  • i guess....... but u hear about the extinctions of whatever and the theory usually is meteors. so.... i was just saying...

  • is it just me or does it seem like scientists are blaming meteors for everything?

  • Some extinctions can be definitely traced to meteor/comet strikes (like the one killed off dinosaurs 65 million years ago), but not all. You are right that meteor strikes are usually the first suspect.

  • its just u..lol

  • This is the scientific equivalent of saying "WE DIDN'T DO IT!"

  • LMAO!

    How true.

  • buffalos werent hunted to extinction as a food source, but their management was taken from the first peoples here in north america, and to help europeans in conquering the first peoples, buffalo were mass slaughtered just to prevent the first peoples from having them as a source of food or clothing...their carcasses left to rot in the plains, many shot from trains and horsemen solely for the evil of greed and land and the taking...

  • What do you mean though?

    Buffalos still exist...

  • The buffalo became nearly extinct, reduced to just a few 100. But they were saved from the brink of extinction (perhaps the European settlers woke up & realized that their aim was to make the Native Americans extinct, not the buffalo).

  • FWI FunniestOfFunnyBJ2TV, dinosaurs did and have existed ont his planet!! We have physical proof for f***s sake! we have bones, fossils and scientific evidense, i can't believe you would say something as stupid as that! "wooly mamoths n dinosaurs all storys to fill peoples head up", well smell the roses! we have tons of evidence to prove you wrong!

  • they're always so positive

  • yes. I think...he correct when he find woman's brain same size as skwirl. this explain much...

  • Women's brain are the same size as men.

    Not yours, however. Your brain is an atom compare to a SQUIRREL'S.

  • why you get fencive baby? Khazakhstani man have something...size of--i like my better--SKWIRL.

  • cld it possibly have been the climate change?

  • THis not true! Khazakhstani scientists prooves Mamoth killed by Jew!

  • epic fail

  • If there was a crator that big at the impact wouldnt there be proof on earth? cant we simulate a smaller impact into what a bigger impact would be? and where would it be or what would it be?

  • they were simulating smaller impacts on the video, and they suggested that if the meteor were to shred into shrapnel before hitting, it would cause a much smaller indent, and since that location was covered in a layer of ice, the blow wouldn't have been as deep either

    that area also has heavy water and wind coverage, which both could do quite well to help cover up a crater, especially if it was a shallower one

  • Excuse me, what precisily has religion got to do with the exitinction of the Woolly Mammoth?!

    And MichaelSwg that is a more likely explanation...

  • Guys , I thought some of the first humans or cavemen made Mammoths extinct , just like the buffalos , i thought they hunted them all down for their food , fur , and bone till they were all gone.

  • well, the only way humans at that time would've been able to do anything near cause an extinction would be if the species was already almost gone

    until the last century or so, humans were not that catastrophic to nature

    now however, we can wipe the entire world out countless times over, and are slowly doing it anyhow

  • I killed the Wolly Mammoth =/

  • If a meteor hit the ocean or a large body of water there would be no impact crater. When comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 94, no impact crater was left. The pressure wave from such an impact could still be deadly.

  • What the hell? o.O I don't get it. If such a mass extinction were to occur, and kill off Woolly Mammoths, and other such mega fauna that lived during that exact same period, wouldn't it have killed us, humans, off too? x_x

  • well, whatever happened, mammoths were cool.

    sabretooths, too. wish we could clone 'em.

  • I find it hard to believe that you can re-simulate a meteorite with glass beads sounds a bit... unrealistic =\

  • North America? Were they not in Eurasia as well? And wouldent such a meteor impact kill other mega fauna animals as well?

  • So, what did that have to do with mammoths? This video just went off topic from it's original topic.

  • you are correct- it is offtopic because extinction of animals and evolution and creationist bulls-t and so forth tend to overlap.

    religionists don't worship ( or even attempt to understand ) " god(s) " in any abstract sense- they worship the figment and figurehead of dogma.

  • cooool

  • but " WHOkilled the wooly mammoth" has a nice ring to it.

  • the title is 'who killed the wooly mammoth' but its about scientists looking at how a meteor could have killed the woolly mammoth last time i checked meteors werent organisms

  • who designed burning at the stake?

    christians. yay.

  • who "designed" a resurrected savior?

    the egyptians ( osiris) 1000 b.c.

    the caananites ( tammuz) 700 b.c.

    the greeks ( dionysius ) 300 b.c.

    who " designed " water baptism ?

    egyptians - cult of osiris 1000 b.c.

  • So your saying all the jews, romans, and civilians during that time who witnessed the events recorded in the gospels are liars? How'd they do that? Water baptism was practiced by the jews around 3500 bc+ by the way.

  • the cannon gospels were written at least a generation AFTER the events alleged in them. NO author of the gospels ever knew the historical jesus. the gospels were not intended to be " collected" by a later church and have irreconcilable contradictions.

    the jews of 3500 b.c to whatever extant you could disvern them from other semitic groups- had a radically different religon and gaods than what is depicted in the OT.

  • was muhammed a " liar " ?

    were the mormons who followed joseph smith " liars" ?

    are buddhists liars?

    are orthodox jews liars?

    because for your reply to work they all have to be.

  • then who designed satan? and death? AND HARMFUL BACTERIA AND VIRUSES?

  • ""Everything that appears designed was designed." was completely blown out of the water with the publication of Darwins On the Origin of Species." No dawkins did not refute this law via the usa of any science we are aware of. Rather dawkins used his own "claims" to refute it. "Claims" and science are two different things, who is the spanner now?:)

  • Wtf are you talking about man??? There is so much evidence for evolution which mounts it to be more than a "claim", that i couldnt even start to express it here. Please do some research, open your eyes you deluded, narrow minded fool. Please explain to me what you think "science" is if you disregard the literal thousands of papers published which support evolution.

  • "Everything that appears designed was designed." The above sentence is the beginning of human logic. Anyone who disagrees is simply illogical and it is difficult to hold a mature conversation with them.

  • warriorprince, thomas aquinas 5th "proof" for the existence of god; "Everything that appears designed was designed." was completely blown out of the water with the publication of Darwins On the Origin of Species. Actually try to understand evolution and natural selection before you come onto the internet makin a spanner out yourself ;)

  • lol!

    hilarious!

    i was posting creationist NONsense as a joke it was absurd because it IS ABSURD.

    "noah" was just an amalgam of egyptian "NO "and gilgamesh's " utnapishtim". noah did not cause the extincton of the mammoth.

    relax. i don't care how many scientists beleive the bible- there were scientists who belived in " master race ' and slavery and a flat-earth and so forth.

    the bible is borrowed myth, law, heavily revised and redacted " history " of judah . and NOTHING more.

  • Oh dear xD

    This is what happens when I don't read every comment before typing responses xD

  • religion gives no answers dont belive it

  • Stupid mammoths why didn't they destroy it from the inside like in Armageddon.

  • I have'nt read the bible yet but does it say the Earth is Flat in the book. I don't think I need to read it just Stories that people want there kids to hear to learn from there mistakes and We always make history Repeat it's self any ways.

  • Why dont you read the stories about Joshua slaughtering thousands because the "Lord" commanded him to. Or how Moses was ordered to kill a few thousand people for starting to worship a "false" god, and then him and his gang rape the blasphemers who happened to be virgins :)

  • Well, if you also belonged to a winner's religion like Christianity, Judaism or Islam, you would also have the license to piously slaughter thousands & righteously rape blasphemous virgins.

  • Hey Joecool174, look at the beginning of the Book of Genesis. The first two verses briefly describe the creation. Then at some point, God started developing the earth in such a way so that the earth could support life. The description of that starts in verse three. There is a gap of an unknown amount of time between what happens in the first two verses and what happens starting in verse three.

  • please explain your point further, i dont understand :S

  • this is a woolly mammoth vid not a theology disc board

  • Famous scientist who believe the BIBLE: Nicholas Copernicus,Sir Francis Bacon,Johanes Kepler,Galileo Galilei,Rene Descartes,Isaac Newton,Robert Boyle,Michael Farady,Gregor Mendel,William Thomson Kelvin, Max Planck.52 out of 55 signers of the declaration of Independence; and the list goes on and on !!!

  • OMG, you ARE serious. The earth is billions of years old. Yeah, there's proof. The bible is full of metaphors which are not supposed to be taken serious. The people you mentioned, knew that. You shouldn't take the bible literally. Read between the lines.

  • Just because someone wrote something down doesn't make it true. Have you ever read Gilgamesh? What about the egyptian gods, or the Greek. Are they true? (Answer is, "NO!", if you didn't.)

  • With the exception of planck and some others you are naming people that lived in predominantly religious times. People would be persecuted heavily if they so much as doubted the existence of a god. Also, listing scientists (that are all dead) does not help prove your point, because we could easily (and i mean very easily) outnumber you with LIVING scientists who completely disregard the bible and may also deny the existence of god. Einstein > you, fucktard.

  • The Earth is hypothesized to be 4.6 billion years old, for those have been the oldest rocks we've FOUND. It could be a little older, nonetheless. Carbon Dating > Bible.