[Rockhounds] What caused the demise of woolly mammoths of Wrangle Island?

[Paul Heinrich]

DNA from mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving population
The mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.
Jeannete Timmons, Ars Technica, June 29, 2024
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/last-population-of-mammoths-survived-a-severe-population-bottleneck/
 
Did inbreeding cause the woolly mammoth’s extinction?
Our research suggests it was more sudden than that
Marianne Dehasque and Love Dalen, The Conversation, June 27, 2024
https://theconversation.com/did-inbreeding-cause-the-woolly-mammoths-extinction-our-research-suggests-it-was-more-sudden-than-that-233119
 
The open access papaer is:
 
Dehasque, M., Morales, H.E., Díez-del-Molino, D., Pečnerová, P.,
Chacón-Duque, J.C., Kanellidou, F., Muller, H., Plotnikov, V.,
Protopopov, A., Tikhonov, A. and Nikolskiy, P., 2023. Temporal
dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction. Cell.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00577-4
 
Yours,
 
Paul H.