Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneckThe study challenges the belief that Wrangel Island mammoths went extinct due to inbreeding and genetic defects.
Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists sayGenetic analysis indicates a possible freak event, not inbreeding, led to the extinction of the last woolly mammoths on a remote Arctic island 4,000 years ago.
Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneckThe study challenges the belief that Wrangel Island mammoths went extinct due to inbreeding and genetic defects.
Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists sayGenetic analysis indicates a possible freak event, not inbreeding, led to the extinction of the last woolly mammoths on a remote Arctic island 4,000 years ago.