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Arctic beasts
A 2014 bailiwick in Nature has recover that Arctic mega - beasts like the wooly mammoth may have grazed a much more wide-ranging landscape than previously thought .
Grassland steppe
Previously , researchers thought the Arctic looked like monumental grassland steppe .
Permafrost cores
But by canvas plant DNA in permafrost essence ( like the one here from Talmyr , Siberia ) , the squad base that many more wildflower - alike works called forbs were present at the time .
Flowery landscape
That suggests the landscape painting was filled with colorful blooms and a more varied plant life than previously guess .
Mammoth tusk
The team also analyzed the gut contents of Pleistocene beasts and found they run through a higher proportionality of forbs than thought .
High protein snacks
These flowering works could have provided high - protein , nutritious snack for beast such as mammoth and rhinos .
Modern diet?
The new results could also mean rethink how much of dissimilar plant types that forward-looking grazers , such as the bison , rust , researchers say .
