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The 4.5 foot long baby was just one month old at the time of death.

30,000 year-old mummified baby mammoth found by Canadian gold miner

By Ben Turner published

The baby was only one month old and grazing at the time of its death.

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An artist's illustration of woolly mammoths

Woolly mammoths survived on mainland North America until 5,000 years ago, DNA reveals

By Cameron Duke published

Ancient DNA reveals that woolly mammoths coexisted with humans in North America for 5,000 years longer than previously believed.

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Excavators lift a mammoth tusk.

200,000-year-old 'mammoth graveyard' found in UK

By Laura Geggel published

During the last ice age, five mammoths — a baby, two juveniles and two adults — died at a "graveyard" in what is now the United Kingdom.

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A close-up view shows a split mammoth tusk at the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility. Blue stain is used to reveal growth lines. Samples were taken along the tusk using lasers and other techniques, allowing an isotope analysis that provided a record of the mammoth's life.

Woolly mammoth's epic 50,000-mile journey retraced

By Mindy Weisberger published

An adult mammoth's preserved tusk revealed how far the animal ranged across Alaska during its 28-year lifetime.

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Members of the team pose with some of the mammoth bones that were found in Little Flake Mine near Dawson City in the Yukon.

Gold miners discover giant skeletons of 3 woolly mammoths

By Owen Jarus published

Gold miners have discovered three partial skeletons of three woolly mammoths , which may have been part of the same family.

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An illustration of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge from the Adycha mammoth.

Oldest sequenced DNA belonged to 1 million-year-old mystery mammoth

By Laura Geggel published

The oldest sequenced DNA on record belongs to a 1.2 million-year-old mammoth.

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Here are some of the "Tadibe" woolly mammoth's recovered bones. Notice the ribs, both halves of the pelvis and one of the hind limbs.

Woolly mammoth with preserved poop, wool and ligaments dredged from Siberian lake

By Laura Geggel published

It's unclear what killed this roughly 15-year-old male woolly mammoth at least 10,000 years ago.

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The last woolly mammoths on Earth were a sickly bunch.

The last woolly mammoths on Earth had disastrous DNA

By Laura Geggel published

The DNA in the woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island had a number of unfavorable variants.

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A male woolly mammoth has just fallen through the ice of a frozen lake.

Trapped! Woolly Mammoth Bachelors Often Met Disastrous Ends

By Laura Geggel published

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The remains of a Columbian mammoth at the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Texas.

Mammoth Tooth Reveals Beast Once Tramped Around Austin, Texas

By Laura Geggel published

About 67,000 years ago, a gigantic mammoth chowed down on enormous mouthfuls of grass in Texas, just west of where modern-day Austin is located, according to new research.

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