Wooly mammoths were in the news lately:
Mammoths survived thousands of years later than scientists originally thought, and died to climate changes, not humans, as originally thought:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-techniques-prove-mammoths-...
Take that humans!
Mammoth site in Waco recommended as a national monument
Waco, Texas holds the site of the largest known concentration of mammoths perishing in the same event (thought to have been a mudslide 68,000 years ago). The site was recently recommended by the Department of the Interior for inclusion in the National Park Service as a national monument.
http://www.wacomammoth.org/