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Ancient woolly mammoth DNA shows that changes to blood helped beasts adapt to cold.

Woolly mammoths' last stand before extinction in Siberia wasn't made by natives.

Genetic data from frozen hairs show two genetically distinct groups of woolly mammoths.

Both climate change and human hunting had a role in woolly mammoth extinction.

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.