They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction – they ate their own dung.
Palaeontologists have gained a fresh insight into the diet that helped these giant beasts survive the biting cold of the last ice age after analysing the stomach contents of a 22,500 year old mammoth found preserved in the Siberian permafrost.
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