Czech Streets 149 Mammoths Are Not Extinct Yet%21 __full__ -

: The final populations survived on Wrangel Island and Saint Paul Island long after the mainland populations vanished.

"Mammoths have been extinct since the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,000 years ago," explains Dr. Marie Sekerková, a leading paleontologist at Charles University in Prague. "While it's possible that some isolated populations may have survived in remote areas, it's highly unlikely that a large herd of mammoths could have gone undetected in a densely populated city like Prague." czech streets 149 mammoths are not extinct yet%21