mammoths

The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths: Secrets of Survival and Mysterious Extinction on Wrangel Island

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The woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island, from a tiny original population, persisted for 6,000 years despite genetic obstacles. Their sudden extinction remains a mystery, offering lessons for modern conservation efforts. Credit: Beth Zaiken Genetic analysis of the last woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island has revealed a population that managed to survive for 6,000 years despite … Read more

Scientists say a strange event has killed woolly mammoths

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By James Cirrone for Dailymail.Com and Reuters 9:44 PM June 30, 2024, updated 9:56 PM June 30, 2024 Scientists conducting a new genomic study claim that the last woolly mammoths on Earth became extinct due to an extreme storm or plague. If the species had not become extinct, they might still be there today. These … Read more

Genetic twist in the story of the last woolly mammoths

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About 10,000 years ago, a small population of woolly mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast. This isolation was the result of rising sea levels, a phenomenon we are all too familiar with today. Within just two generations, the woolly mammoth population on Wrangel Island grew from just eight individuals to a … Read more

The last stand of the woolly mammoths

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For millions of years, mammoths roamed Europe, Asia and North America. About 15,000 years ago, the giant animals began disappearing from their vast range, until they survived on only a few islands. Eventually they disappeared from those shelters, too, with one exception: Wrangel Island, a landmass the size of Delaware, more than 80 miles north … Read more

A mysterious ‘random event’ killed Earth’s last woolly mammoths in Siberia, study claims

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The planet’s last surviving mammoth population was killed off by a random and sudden mysterious event, a new study has found. The population, which was isolated from the rest of the world for 6,000 years on Wrangel Island in present-day far northern Russia, was previously believed slowly exterminated by genetic inbreeding. But a new study … Read more

A Siberian cemetery reveals 800 years of interactions between humans and mammoths

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A so-called ‘mammoth graveyard’ in Arctic Siberia has a lot to teach us about how humans and elephants’ furry cousins ​​interacted in the last days of their existence. Unfortunately, some of the best evidence has been stolen by ivory hunters. It’s amazing that humans could have lived in Siberia, above the Arctic Circle, at the … Read more