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Scientists say freak event killed woolly mammoths
Daily Mail· 1 day agoWoolly mammoths traversed the Ice Age tundras of North America, Europe and Asia as far back as 300...
Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction – study
Romford Recorder· 5 days agoExperts say the findings indicate the animals were not doomed to go extinct for genetic reasons and that if a mysterious event had not wiped them off the planet they would still exist today.
The last woolly mammoths on Earth died from bad luck, not inbreeding
New Scientist· 5 days agoAround 10,000 years ago, a handful of woolly mammoths found themselves stranded on an island in the...
The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths
New York Times· 5 days agoStarting roughly 15,000 years ago, the giant animals began to vanish from their vast range until they survived on only a few islands. When the Wrangel...
Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths
Reuters· 5 days agoAbout 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island...