Tag: Woolly

Woolly Mammoths Were Still Around When Egyptians Built the Pyramids

Believe it or not, there were still Woolly Mammoths alive and walking the earth when the Egyptians built the pyramids. We don’t mean one of those “the pyramids are way older than you think” things either. A small colony of mammoths survived on Wrangle Island, a small island way up ...

The Tragic End of the Woolly Mammoth

Four thousand years ago, when Pharaohs built the magnificent pyramids at Giza, the last remaining woolly mammoth died on Wrangel Island. Roughly the size of Crete, the island is in the Arctic Ocean, near the Russia-U.S. border. The majestic creature had lost its sense of smell. It had shrunk in size...