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 Mammoth:

• Sequencing an extinct genome is no longer a pipe dream, says evolutionary biologist and ancient DNA specialist Hendrik poinar. It's a modern reality, and we're not too far from seeing revived extinct species walking the Earth again maybe even a Wolly mammoth.
• Thanks to frozen carcasses with skeletons, stomach contents, tusks and now liquid blood left intact- as well as cave painting depictions by our human ancestors-scientists know more about the wolly mammoth than any other prehistoric animal.

They aren't All that Mammoth

• All mammoths were big compared to most modern mammals. But the very biggest of the them were 13 feet tall and weighed more than eight tons.
• The relatively puny woolly mammoth, by contrast, was only about nine feet and weighed a mere five tons.

Mammoths were around When King Tut was

• Woolly mammoths and early human beings shared the planet for 1000 years. Most mammoths went extinct about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene;
• The very last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island off the cost of Russia.
• There were living mammoths on the planet just 3,600 years ago, at the same time that King Tut ruled ancient Egypt.

Their Bones Built Homes

• Early societies in places like modern-day Ukraine hunted woolly mammoths for their meat. Once the meat was gone, they had the animals huge tusks and bones to use for a variety of purposes.
• Some of the first-bone built dwellings were probably built of mammoth bones by Neanderthals in central Europe.

They may have suffered from too little Genetic Diversity

• Other research points to higher coastlines as the cause for demise of the wolly mammoth. The last group of woolly mammoths lived on two small islands.
• The genetic pool became smaller and smaller. In the long run, the mammoths were too genetically compromised to survive.