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For these scientists, the clues lie in the bones.
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In other words, these mammoths roamed the tundra while Pharaoh Sesostris I was building his shrines at Thebes more than 3,500 years ago," writes associate Clare Flemming in Natural History magazine. "Because Wrangel's mammoths were such later survivors, we thought that if a deadly virus could be detected, their fossil remains would be the likeliest to have retained traces of it."
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