DNA Mutations May Have Doomed the Woolly Mammoth

Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 14:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By the end of the ice age, the last remaining woolly mammoths had acquired so many genetic mutations that their numbers were practically guaranteed to spiral toward extinction, a new study has revealed.

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