4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why
Briefly

Mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island...eventually leading to an unviable population and extinction.
To address this, we generated a dataset of 21 mammoth genomes...the genetic effects of their isolation over time.
Lonely Boy was the most precious individual in our dataset, the sample key to understanding why mammoths went extinct.
Read at Inverse
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