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  2. Columbian mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America from southern Canada to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch. The Columbian mammoth descended from Eurasian steppe mammoths that colonised North America during the Early Pleistocene around 1.5–1.3 million years ago, and later experienced hybridisation with the woolly mammoth lineage.

  3. Mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. ... Woolly mammoths evolved a suite of adaptations for arctic life, including ...

  4. Woolly rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    The rhino's main habitat was the mammoth steppe, a large, open landscape covered with wide ranges of grass and bushes. The woolly rhinoceros lived alongside other large herbivores, such as the woolly mammoth, giant deer, reindeer, saiga antelope and bison – an assortment of animals known as the Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex. [50]

  5. Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant

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    Church and Eriona Hysolli, Colossal’s head of biological sciences, revealed they had reprogrammed cells from an Asian elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative, into an embryonic state ...

  6. The Texas company reviving the extinct woolly mammoth adds ...

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    For mammoths, close relatives to Asian elephants that could stand up to 12 feet tall and weigh as much as eight tons, evidence in archaeology and paleontology suggest humans over-hunted the ...

  7. Resurrected woolly mammoth gene reveals how they thrived in ...

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    Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the woolly mammoth's genome and have pinpointed many specific ways in which it differs from that of their elephant relatives. Those include ...

  8. Portal:Paleontology/Natural world articles/102 - Wikipedia

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    The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus.Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant.

  9. Scientists Want To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth, Dodo Bird, And ...

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    With the thylacine, woolly mammoth, and dodo bird, the company has successfully covered three broad and distinct groups of animals. ... “We will start with the closest living relative of that ...