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Three woolly mammoths walk over a snowy steppe during the last Ice Age.
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Mammoths Lost Their Steppe Habitat to Climate Change

by Elise Cutts 19 November 20216 June 2024

Ancient plant and animal DNA buried in Arctic sediments preserve a 50,000-year history of Arctic ecosystems, suggesting that climate change contributed to mammoth extinction.

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