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World’s Oldest DNA Found in Siberian Mammoth Teeth – The Moscow Times
Geneticists uncovered DNA as much as 1.2 million years old from a northeastern Siberian mammoth’s molars.
Siberian mammoth teeth have contributed to the discovery of the world’s oldest DNA, the scientific journal Nature reported Wednesday.
Before the latest findings, the oldest DNA sequences were believed to have come from a 700,000-year-old Canadian horse’s leg bone in 2013.
Geneticists have now uncovered DNA as much as 1.2 million years old from molar specimens of a northeastern Siberian mammoth excavated by Russian paleontologist Andrei Sher in the 1970s.
Two other samples are believed to be from…
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