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Woolly mammoths once ruled the northern reaches of our planet—roaming from Portugal to Siberia, and beyond to Alaska, Canada and the American Midwest. And the massive beasts left lots of fossil evidence of their occupation.
But now scientists have noticed a strange trend among those mammoth remains. The researchers genetically analyzed the fossilized bones, teeth and tusks of 98 individual Siberian mammoths. And they found that 70 percent of the mammoths...were males.
"So essentially we think this is driven by two different things." Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist and professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. "In general, in wild animals, males tend to be more risk-taking."

The second thing, if modern elephant culture is any indication, is that male mammoths may have been solitary loners. More likely to crash through thin ice and sinkholes, or get caught in a mudslide than females. These types of death are more likely to become preserved—so those are the remains that we find today. The study is in the journal Current Biology.
Dalén says this is an important reminder that the fossil record is far from complete. "The fossils we find might not always be representative of the species back when it lived." But with a little detective work, even seemingly random remains have much to reveal.
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1. in general 总的来说；总体上来看；大体上；
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2. tend to do sth. 往往会；经常就；
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3. be likely to do sth. 可能（做…）的；有（…）倾向的；
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3. be far from 根本不；远远不；
例句：It was obvious that much of what they recorded was far from the truth.
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