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Monumental DNA Study Reveals Secrets of North American Mastodons – Gizmodo Australia
A new paper published today offers surprising insight into the American mastodon and its reactions to a changing environment. This stocky megafauna — whose tusks, trunk and four legs echo today’s elephant — is thought to have lived predominantly within forest…
A new paper published today offers surprising insight into the American mastodon and its reactions to a changing environment. This stocky megafauna whose tusks, trunk and four legs echo todays elephant is thought to have lived predominantly within forests and marshy environments throughout ancient North America before its extinction approximately 11,000 years ago.
With technology not available even a decade ago, scientists have studied genetic information preserved within 33 mastodon individual…
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