If you happened to catch the article in LiveScience, you realized that they’re talking about the wool-covered elephants that perished from the Earth thousands of years ago:
The team found that the brunt of the damage done to mammoths was due to Earth’s warming weather around 8,000 to 6,000 years ago. Since Earth was coming out of a glacial age…
Hmm, I wonder how many SUVs were generating carbon emissions back then…