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Story: Extinctions

Mammoth skeleton

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Mammoth skeleton

This woolly mammoth was killed in North America about 11,000 years ago. Partly frozen carcasses have been found in northern Siberia. The last remaining population of this species survived on an island in the Arctic Ocean, and became extinct about 1700 BC.

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Richard Holdaway, Extinctions – Extinctions in the human era, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13653/mammoth-skeleton (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Richard Holdaway, published 2 March 2009.