article_snippet.sent: But it seems the final days of the woolly mammoth were a sad struggle for survival.
article_snippet.sent: However, many scientists fear these animals would be unable to survive in the modern world without these animals ancient habitat.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers analysis revealed that mammoths appear to have suffered significant setbacks around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago where mammoths population was decimated.
article_snippet.sent: However, mammoths then recovered before mammoths experienced a further hit to mammoths populations around 116,000 to 130,000 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: The population then appears to have remained stable until 12,000 years ago when The population numbers were drastically reduced.
article_snippet.sent: Hunting by humans has long been thought to be what drove two woolly mammoths who died 36,000 years apart to extinction while climate change has also been blamed.
article_snippet.sent: The new results suggest the animals were already in decline by the time humans began moving into Europe 45,000 years ago.
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers found mammoth populations suffered declines in the past .
  