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Hair is a better source of ancient DNA than bone or muscle, a woollymammoth study suggests.

Woolly mammoth's genes played a role in their extinction.

The same DNA that affects hair color in humans has been found in mammoths.

Scientists have mapped part of the genome of the woolly mammoth, a huge mammal that's been extinct for about 10,000 years.

Like an Ice Age version of Land of the Lost, a group of woolly mammoths survived mass extinctions on their own island hideaway.