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NotMandatory: These bones were excavated in 1986 (they may well have been contaminated in that time) and all the bones (from 5 individuals) came from the same site.... more »
Woolly mammoths may have lived millennia later than initially believed, if new dating techniques of a recent fossil discovery are accurate. Scientists are now estimating that the originally-thought extinction date of 21,000 years ago is off... by a third.
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