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“Sharing this habitat were other now-extinct species such as the woolly rhinoceros and giant deer.”
Most mammoths became extinct around 10,000 years ago, surviving on Siberia’s Wrangel Island longer than anywhere else on earth. Radiocarbon dating indicates that a dwarf population existed there until between 7000 and 3,700 years ago. To read about a Museum expedition to Wrangel in search of clues to their extinction, see “Tusks on the Tundra.”
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