oolly mammoths weren’t always the shaggy beasts depicted in movies. Scientists now have a better idea of when these) to the genomes of 28 modern-day Asian elephants () and African elephants (). They found that over the course of the fauna’s more than 700,000 years of existence, its ‘trademark features’, such as woolly fur, small ears and large fat deposits, evolved too.
WOOLLY MAMMOTHS WEREN’T ALWAYS SHAGGY
May 11, 2023
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