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Natural History Museum, The last of the mammoths (checked 14 November 2026)
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/last-mammoths.html
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum, Were all mammoths woolly?, by Emily Osterloff, with Professor Adrian Lister (checked 14 November 2026)
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/were-all-mammoths-woolly.html
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum, Mammoth evolution as a model for species origins, Principal Investigator Prof Adrian Lister (checked 14 November 2026)
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/research/projects/mammoth-evolution-model-species-origins.html
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Natural History Museum.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Woolly mammoth, by the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, revised by John P. Rafferty (page dated 6 November 2026; checked 14 November 2026)
https://www.britannica.com/animal/woolly-mammoth
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mammoth (genus Mammuthus), by the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (checked 14 November 2026)
https://kids.britannica.com/scholars/article/mammoth/50411
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Britannica.
Vartanyan, S. L., Garutt, V. E. and Sher, A. V., Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic, Nature 362, 337–340 (25 March 1993), abstract (checked 14 November 2026)
https://www.nature.com/articles/362337a0
Checked 14 November 2026. Short label on the site: Nature, 1993.
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