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What you need to know about Mammoth de-extinction
After 10,000 years of extinction, this is when woolly mammoths will walk the Earth again
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Humans walked and hunted on the Arctic 10,000 years earlier than initially believed
Plenty of previous evidence shows that humans hunted mammoths during the late Pleistocene, with some studies arguing that our species hastened the mammoths’ extinction.
However, a Siberian discovery shows a mammoth hunt high in the Arctic around 45,000 years ago, almost ten millennia before humans were thought to have walked that area.