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Million-year-old DNA from mammoth teeth found in Siberia is oldest genome ever sequenced – ABC News

It’s not quite Jurassic Park, but scientists have successfully extracted and reconstructed million-year-old DNA from mammoth teeth — and solved a couple of mysteries…

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It’s not quite Jurassic Park, but scientists have successfully extracted and reconstructed million-year-old DNA from mammoth teeth and solved a couple of mysteries about the creatures’ evolutionary history along the way.
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  • Researchers extracted, sequenced and decoded DNA from three mammoth teeth
  • They calculated the ages of the teeth to 1.65 million, 1.34 million and 870,000 years, making it the oldest DNA sequenced so far
  • Genetic data showed evidence of hybridisation and a potential new…

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