Woolly and Columbian mammoths, two species of elephant that once lived in North America, may have interbred.
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) found in Utah suggests that its mitochondrial DNA was nearly identical to that of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).
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