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mammoth <Mammuthus>

Known as: Mammoth, Mammoths, Mammuthus 
An extinct genus of large mammals in the family Elephantidae that fed by grazing on low vegetation. Most died out at the end of the last ice age.
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mammoth <Mammuthus primigenius>

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2009
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2009
Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska
Causes of late Quaternary extinctions of large mammals (“megafauna”) continue to be debated, especially for continental losses… 
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2009
Review
2009
Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna
Abstract Large herbivorous vertebrates have strong interactions with vegetation, affecting the structure, composition and… 
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth
In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual… 
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2008
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2008
Climate Change, Humans, and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth
Woolly mammoths inhabited Eurasia and North America from late Middle Pleistocene (300 ky BP [300,000 years before present… 
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2004
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2004
Pleistocene to Holocene extinction dynamics in giant deer and woolly mammoth
The extinction of the many well-known large mammals (megafauna) of the Late Pleistocene epoch has usually been attributed to… 
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2004
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2004
The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic Before the Last Glacial Maximum
A newly discovered Paleolithic site on the Yana River, Siberia, at 71°N, lies well above the Arctic circle and dates to 27,000… 
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2003
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2003
Palaeolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art
Archaeologists have always viewed the origin of figurative art as a crucial threshold in human evolution. Here I report the… 
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2000
Highly Cited
2000
Early human occupation of Western Europe: paleomagnetic dates for two paleolithic sites in Spain.
The lacustrine deposits infilling the intramontane Guadix-Baza Basin, in the Betic Range of Southern Spain, have yielded abundant… 
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1998
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1998
The isotopic ecology of late Pleistocene mammals in North America: Part 1. Florida
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1993
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1993
Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic
THE cause of extinction of the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach), is still debated. A major environmental change… 
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