Some of the last mammoths on Earth suffered from mutated genes that reduced fertility, caused diabetes, affected their development and even kept them from being able to smell flowers, according to a new study
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While woolly mammoths were once plentiful across the northern hemisphere, they actually went extinct in two separate events. The first wave of mammoth extinction occurred on the heels of the last ice age and global warming led to the loss of their habitat, around 10,500 years ago.But isolated populations of mammoths survived for much longer on St. Paul Island in Alasaka and Wrangel Island, until about 5,600 years ago and 4,000 years ago, respectively.
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