WOOLLY MAMMOTHS SURVIVED INTO THE AGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
Contrary to the popular belief that mammoths died out around 10,000 years ago, after the end of the last ice age, small numbers of the huge mammals survived in several locations for another 6,000 years or so. In fact, a population of woolly mammoths roamed Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean off Siberia, as recently as 3,700 years ago – centuries after the construction of both the pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge.
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