Siberan peatland and forest by Dave Beilman

Pictured: Siberian forest and peatland. About 13,000 years ago, climate warming caused marshy peatlands to develop, forcing woolly mammoths to struggle through difficult and nutritionally poor terrain, and forests became more abundant, squeezing mammoths out of their former territory. Photo by Dave Beilman.

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