Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06020-9 Published online 3 May 2023

In the version of the article originally published, there was a typographical error in the “Female woolly mammoth” subsection, where the landmass of Wrangel Island was described as 76,000 km2 rather than 7,600 km2; the error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.