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Clare Flemings by the Chukchi Sea.
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Where: Wrangel Island, a 2000-square-mile island in the Chukchi Sea off northeastern Siberia.
And Why? : Because woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel significantly longer than anywhere else on earth. The relative abundance and freshness of fossil remains made it the best place to start testing a theory about what killed them off.
Searching for Clues to Mammalian Extinctions
Only 11,000 years ago, as the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age, hundreds of land-vertebrate species--including large mammals such as the woolly mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger--disappeared.
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