columbian mammoth
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14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age Campsite
A female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists that recently scrutinized isotopes in the tusk. The massive proboscidean was 20 when she died, according to the team’s research, published today in Science Advances.…
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Unprecedented Study of a Single Woolly Mammoth Shows Where It Roamed From Birth to Death
We might not be able to study a walking, breathing woolly mammoth in real life, but what if we could track its movements and get a sense of where it travelled, from its birth to its death? For the first time ever, scientists have done just that.