Mammoth mystery
Daily Star|June 28, 2024
BEASTS KILLED BY "RANDOM EVENT'
STEPHEN BEECH
Mammoth mystery

THE last woolly mammoths were inbred but this did not cause them to die out, say boffins.

The beasts were on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago when the sea rose and cut it off from the mainland.

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