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Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Egyptian pyramids were being built.

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While the Egyptians were erecting the great pyramids, a small isolated population of woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. They only completely disappeared around sixteen fifty BC.

Source: Natural History Museum

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