New woolly mammoth lineage found -- and maybe clues to their extinction

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 18:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A previously unknown European lineage of woolly mammoths once plodded Earth, suggest new DNA analyses, which also provide new evidence for the role of climate change in the animal's ultimate extinction.

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