Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until as recently as 1650 BC.

Woolly mammoths: Facts about these extinct, shaggy beasts that once roamed the Arctic —Woolly mammoths weren't always shaggy. Here's when they evolved some of their trademark features.

Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhino. The team, working on improvements to the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon ...