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Mammoth species in North America repeatedly interbred over thousands of years, creating hybrid offspring, a new fossil analysis has revealed. The findings alter what we know about the evolution of ...

New fossil and genetic evidence shows that woolly and Columbian mammoths were not just distant cousins roaming separate parts of Ice Age North America — they were interbreeding for tens of thousands ...