The Week in Pictures: April 17 – April 24, 2015. Part 5/6

A mammoth tusk is pictured by a river on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia in this image released to Reuters on April 22, 2015. The most complete genetic information assembled on woolly mammoths is providing insight into their demise, revealing they suffered two population crashes before a final, severely inbred group succumbed on an Arctic Ocean island. Scientists unveiled on April 23, 2015 the first two full genomes of these mighty elephant relatives emblematic of the Ice Age, showing they experienced an extensive loss of genetic diversity before perishing roughly 4,000 years ago. (Photo by Love Dalen/Reuters)
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