Last woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island
c. 2000 BCE · Event
The Ice Age's most famous animal outlives the Ice Age itself: cut off on an Arctic island as the seas rose, a dwindling population of woolly mammoths survives six thousand years after the mainland herds vanish — the last dying around 2000 BCE, when the Great Pyramid was already five centuries old. Their genomes show a population that lost much of its diversity when it was cut off, then held steady until a sudden end.
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