#wrangelisland — Public Fediverse posts
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Last surviving woolly #mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction https://phys.org/news/2024-06-surviving-woolly-mammoths-inbred-doomed.html
Temporal dynamics of woolly #mammoth #genome erosion prior to #extinction: Marianne Dehasque et al. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00577-4
"The last population of mammoths was isolated on #WrangelIsland off the coast of #Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland... they originated from at most 8 individuals but grew to 200–300 within 20 generations."
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Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneck - Enlarge / An artist's conception of one of the last mammoths of Wrangel... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034436 #wrangelisland #ancientdna #evolution #genetics #genomics #mammoths #science #biology
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@ArtBear @Sadtomato @MicheleV_AK
From my series back in 2011. OMG I'm so old now! What an amazing planet we live on.