A Mammoth of a Problem...

The last mammoth got stuck on an island in the arctic circle which led to a lot of inbreeding - leading to a phenomenon called genomic meltdown.

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[kemsat-nh]

Somehow the fact that mammoth were still alive like 6000 years ago has eluded me for over 30 years.

[psymon_says]

Wrangell is pronounced without the 'e', just a tip for those travelling through the panhandle. When you sound like a tourist we charge a tourist tax, hence why everything in Alaska is expensive.

[alexnovak]

Wait...so the last wolly mammoth wasn't wolly?

[procrastinator]

How about the Channel Islands dwarf mammoths ?

[Jarikslav]

Bro really said “i hate this life so much ill go alabama to death”

[ericschmuecker]

How do we know they lost their sense of smell ?

[spinadosantos]

Funny. If that rock in the artic circle was bigger, like denmark size, could we have mammoth today?

[FacesintheStone]

The same thing was happening to humans. The ancient art of North America depicts people that look very different living together.

[armin]

Can we named that island New Alabama ?

[bestuan]

why do people wanna bring back mammoths especially in this climate lol

[notinburqa]

It's an inaccurate fact, isn't it?
You just extrapolated things. Doesn't work that way every time.
It is claimed they were hunted down.

[greensteve]

"Rapidly warming" as in 'thousands of years', not '200 hundred years'.

[upbeat]

No bc the pyramids are 12, 000 years old at the minimum the the Sphinx has water erosion that I couldn’t have been caused in Africa for the past 10, 000 years because it has been a desert for that long so 💁