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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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Mammoths (mother and baby) monument near road to Nadym town in Western Siberia, Russia.

Mammoth resurrection: 11 hurdles to bringing back an ice age beast

By Laura Geggel published

The road to bringing back the mammoth — a giant that went extinct at the end of the last ice age — is filled with barriers.

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Mammoth tusk excavation

Newfound Tusk Belonged to One of the Last Surviving Mammoths in Alaska

By Laura Geggel published

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This mural at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City shows woolly mammoths near the Somme River.

DNA Mutations May Have Doomed the Woolly Mammoth

By Knvul Sheikh published

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A skull and two tusk fragments from a Columbian mammoth, found in a sand it in Oklahoma.

Giant Mammoth Skull Discovered by Bulldozer Operator

By Jeanna Bryner published

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Mammoth Pelvis in Oregon

Ice-Age Mammoth Bones Found Under Oregon Football Field

By Laura Geggel published

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Butchered mammoth

Butchered Mammoth Suggests Humans Lived in Siberia 45,000 Years Ago

By Laura Geggel published

The slashed and punctured bones of a woolly mammoth suggest that humans lived in the far northern reaches of Siberia earlier than scientists had previously thought, a new study finds.

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