Ghosts of Wrangel Island
This is a story about a natural disaster that happened—to mammoths. Let’s dig in.
Ancient History Fangirl · Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy
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Mammoths existed on our planet for roughly five million years, and they were perfectly adapted to the ice age world they inhabited. So perfectly adapted that when the last ice age ended, so did they. No woolly mammoths have walked the earth for the last 10,000 years. Or did they?
It turns out that the last mammoths didn’t disappear 10,000 years ago. For thousands of years after their extinction in the rest of the world, a small population still lived on a remote island in the Arctic called Wrangel Island. And in their last days? In the end times? Things got weird.
This is a story about a natural disaster that happened—to mammoths. Let’s dig in.
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