Scientists shed new light on woolly mammoths

WOOLLY mammoths were roaming the Shropshire countryside thousands of years after they were thought to be extinct, research suggests.

Scientists have re-examined skeletons of one adult male and four juvenile mammoths unearthed from Condover, Shropshire, in 1986. New techniques allowed them to make a more accurate estimate of the age of the fossils, indicating they lived here 14,000 years ago – 7,000 years after they were believed to have died out.