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4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

— PHILIP FONG/AFP/Getty Images

In science, we usually share our successes and ignore the less glamorous mishaps. We decided to follow a different approach. This is the story of how multiple generations of scientists collaborated to decipher the genome of the mammoth formerly known as Lonely Boy, often referred to as the last mammoth on the Earth.

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