Science
We sequenced the oldest ever DNA, from million-year-old mammoths – The Conversation UK
Our results have revolutionised the previously held view of the evolution of mammoths.
Most people think of mammoths as the iconic woolly species from the last Ice Age, which ended around 12,000 years ago. But mammoths originated in Africa around 5 million years ago, then spread and diversified across Eurasia and North America.
About a million years ago there was one known species of mammoth inhabiting Siberia, the steppe mammoth. This was thought to be the ancestor of later species such as the woolly and Columbian mammoths. But was it?
In a new study, we show mammoth DNA as old…
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