Kelly April Tyrrell

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Stories by Kelly April Tyrrell

Environment & Climate

Mammoth IslandWinter 2016

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By ten thousand years ago, woolly mammoths had gone extinct from mainland Asia and North America. But a population of island-dwelling mammoths survived on a remnant piece of land once part of the Bering Strait land bridge.

UW geography professor Jack Williams and…