woolly mammoth

New DNA evidence challenges theory of woolly mammoth extinction

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How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, come to be trapped in modern-day Wrangel? … [+] Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t bad genetics as previously thought. getty Rising sea levels around 10,000 years ago transformed Wrangel Island into a last refuge for the woolly … Read more

10,000-year-old mystery solved with technology that ‘had never before been thought possible’

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A 10,000-year-old mystery about what led to the extinction of one of the world’s last megafauna has been solved. The woolly rhino was almost two meters tall and had a meter-long horn. But the creature, which roamed Eurasia for about 3.6 million years, was wiped out by human activity, according to new research from the … Read more