Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth
![An adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago. Credit: James Havens Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2021-08-28-701x440.jpg)
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice. Scientists gathered unprecedented details of its life through analysis of a 17,000-year-old fossil from the University of Alaska Museum of the North. By […]