The Mammoth's Murder

The scientific method must be done in the following steps: observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, analyze, and conclusion. The scientific method must have a hypothesis and this hypothesis must be tested. This test is done by an experiment. This experiment then allows the scientist to determine whether the hypothesis was wrong or right. This article uses the scientific method by trying to answer how did the mammoth’s become extinct. Allen West then develops a hypothesis that blames a comic for the mammoth’s extinction. He blames a comet for the extinction based on evidence from a crater. West also based and supported his hypothesis on nanodiamonds found around the time of the mammoth’s extinction. He also believes that the nanodiamonds
could have played a significant part in the extinction. Another thing he believed that may have been responsible for the extinction was the climate change. He tested his nanodiamonds theory at the University of Maine. However, it was determined that the study was insufficient to link the nanodiamonds to the extinction of the mammoths.