Researchers solve mammoth evolutionary puzzle: The woollies weren't picky, happy to interbreed
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 18:31
in Biology & Nature
A DNA-based study sheds new light on the complex evolutionary history of the woolly mammoth, suggesting it mated with a completely different and much larger species. The research found the woolly mammoth, which lived in the cold climate of the Arctic tundra, interbred with the Columbian mammoth, which preferred the more temperate regions of North America and was some 25 percent larger.