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Stories about: woolly mammoths

Lethal Combination of Factors Led to Mammoth Extinction A group of scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that woolly mammoths disappeared due to a lethal combination of factors. The creatures went extinct between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, and no one knew precisely why until recently. The study showed that the last of the creatures wer... 13 June 2012 05:17 GMT The Reasons Woolly Mammoths Are Extinct Woolly mammoths were good parents and they nursed their infants for two or three years after birth, but a new research carried out by the University of Western Ontario concluded that this extra care only contributed to their extinction. These massive animals lived north of the Arctic Circle during the Pleistocene Ep... 22 December 2010 05:01 GMT