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  1. Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 05:49:15 JST Flipboard Science Desk Flipboard Science Desk

    The planet's last woolly mammoth population was killed by a random and sudden mystery event, a new study has revealed. The giant creatures survived on what's now Russia's Wrangel Island, between the Chukchi Sea and Siberian Sea, for 6,000 years after their mainland brethren died off. The discovery rules out “the idea that the population was simply too small and that they were doomed to go extinct for genetic reasons.” Read more from Live Science: https://flip.it/jhv9Kw
    #Science #Animals #History #Biology

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    1. Mystery 'random event' killed off Earth's last woolly mammoths in Siberia, study claims
      Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island for 6,000 years after their mainland cousins had perished. A new genomic study has revealed that this final population likely died from a sudden, mysterious event.

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