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The woolly mammoths may have been alive during the time of Egypt based on new data, but more proof is looked for, according to the genetic evidence.

THE CONVERSATION

Permafrost in the Yukon is a treasure trove of ancient environmental DNA, but climate change threatens these rich historical archives.

Permafrost in the Yukon is a treasure trove of ancient environmental DNA, but climate change threatens these rich historical archives.

"Although mammoths are gone forever, horses are not. The horse that lived in the Yukon 5000 years ago is directly related to the horse species we have today."

In a recent investigation, samples from Alaska show that Woolly mammoths stood in North America for centuries longer than researchers initially assumed. According to a latest analysis, the hairy beasts may have survived from what is now Canada's Yukon about 5,000 years ago, which is about 5,000 years longer than specialists originally projected.

Ancient DNA reveals that woolly mammoths coexisted with humans in North America for 5,000 years longer than previously believed.

Simple spoonfuls of dirt extracted from Canada's permafrost provide rich new information and rewrite old views about the extinction dynamics, dates, and survival of megafaunas like mammoths, horses, and other long-lost living forms in the Yukon.

Recent analysis of ancient DNA found in soil samples collected in the Canadian permafrost has revealed that mammoths and Yukon wild horses survived thousands of years longer than previously thought. The samples, which were found specifically in the Klondike region of Yukon, were analyzed and presented in a 30,000-year DNA record by researchers from McMaster... Read more »

Scientists have cloned an endangered species. Some wonder if there could be a real-life Jurassic Park