DNA shows that last woolly mammoths had North American roots

Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 12:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In a surprising reversal of conventional wisdom, a DNA-based study has revealed that the last of the woolly mammoths—which lived between 40,000 and 4,000 years ago—had roots that were exclusively North American.

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