Miss mammoths? Blame your ancestors
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Mammoths
What are mammoths? The woolly mammoth — the symbol of the ice age — is the popular image of a mammoth: a large hairy elephant that lived in the arctic. However, there were also mammoths much smaller than modern elephants, mammoths without hair, and mammoths that lived in a Mediterranean or even African climate. All mammoths are members of the genus Mammuthus, closely related to the last two rem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.344.6191.1477-f