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  2. Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths

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    About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world's charismatic Ice Age animals.

  3. Researchers say the last woolly mammoths died out due to thirst

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    One group of mammoths, however, survived for another 5,000 years on St. Paul Island, a remote island off the coast of Alaska. As the Earth warmed up after the Ice Age, sea levels rose.

  4. Woolly mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The last woolly mammoth populations are claimed to have decreased in size and increased their sexual dimorphism, but this was dismissed in a 2012 study. [43] Model at the Royal BC Museum. Woolly mammoths had several adaptations to the cold, most noticeably the layer of fur covering all parts of their bodies.

  5. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

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    Late Pleistocene in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón.Left to right: wild horse; woolly mammoth; reindeer; cave lion; woolly rhinoceros Mural of the La Brea Tar Pits by Charles R. Knight, including sabertooth cats (Smilodon fatalis, left) ground sloths (Paramylodon harlani, right) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi, background)

  6. A Piece of Evidence May Explain Why the Woolly Mammoth ...

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    12,800 years ago, the woolly mammoth suddenly disappeared. A new piece evidence may finally explain why. ... Evidence may exist for a comet shockwave hitting Earth after the last ice age.

  7. Wrangel Island - Wikipedia

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    Woolly mammoth and muskox remains displayed on Wrangel Island, where mammoths survived until 4,000 years ago. This remote Arctic island is believed to have been the final place on Earth to support woolly mammoths as an isolated population until their extinction about 2000 BC, which makes them the most recent surviving population known to science.

  8. A Piece of Evidence May Explain Why the Woolly Mammoth ...

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    12,800 years ago, the woolly mammoth suddenly disappeared. A new piece evidence may finally explain why. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  9. Revival of the woolly mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The revival of the woolly mammoth is a proposed hypothetical that frozen soft-tissue remains and DNA from extinct woolly mammoths could be a means of regenerating the species. Several methods have been proposed to achieve this goal, including cloning , artificial insemination , and genome editing .