Scientists behind a new genomic study now claim the last woolly mammoths on Earth were wiped out in an extreme storm or a plague - which means if an extinction event hadn't occurred, they might still be around to this day.
These giant Ice Age beasts traversed the then-tundras of North America, Europe and as far back as 300,000 years ago. They later went extinct roughly 4,000 years ago on an isolated island off the coast of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean.
The latest analysis shows that a few hundred woolly mammoths were cooped up on small Wrangel Island for about 6,000 years, but scientists say they didn't die due to inbreeding, reported.
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