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10,000 years ago, the last mammoths to walk the Earth were captured on Wrangel Island in northern Siberia. New genetic discoveries reveal how many of them were captured, how their population grew, and perhaps even how they went extinct. I spoke with geneticist Marianne Dehasque about her fascinating research into the DNA of the last mammoths.

Sources:
Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion before extinction
Dehasque, Marianne et al.
Cell, Volume 187, Number 14, 3531 – 3540.e13

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