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Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearance

06-07-2007 · EurekAlert!

Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: The disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a June 7 report published online in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

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