Science
Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world’s oldest DNA – National Geographic
The record-breaking genetic material is offering fresh insights into how North America’s mammoths lived and evolved.
Scientists have sequenced the oldest DNA yet, smashing through a symbolic barrier in the study of ancient genomes and opening an unprecedented window into the evolution of North Americas extinct Ice Age giantsthe Columbian and woolly mammoths.
The feat is unlikely to spark a mammalian Jurassic-Park style recreation; the study isnt the first to sequence a mammoths genome, nor does it bring humankind any closer to resurrecting a mammoth. Instead, the study of DNA more than a million years old, published…
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