The New York Times, January 17, 2024
Scientists have written the biography of a 14,000-year-old female woolly mammoth by analyzing the chemicals in her tusk.
The animal, nicknamed Elma, was born in what is now the Yukon and stayed close to her birthplace a decade before moving hundreds of miles west into central Alaska, the study found. There she remained until she reached about 20, when she was most likely taken down by hunters.
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