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a hairy elephant cousin that ate spruce, dodged spears, and lost anyway.
name originGreek for nipple-tooth, naming its bumpy molars
not a mammothdistant relative, shorter and stockier with different teeth
dietbrowsed twigs and leaves, not grassland grazers
extinctionvanished around 11,000 years ago in North America
DNA recoveredancient genomes sequenced from fossil teeth and bone