Scientists extract DNA over a million years old from frozen mammoths
Follow Feb. 17, 2021 Scientists have retrieved DNA from mammoths that had lain in the Siberian permafrost for over a million years, in an elephantine leap forward for the study of ancient DNA. The previous record was held by a horse who lived three-quarters to half a million years ago, whose genome was retrieved and analyzed in 2013. Analysis of the whole genomes from two mammoths dating to more than 1.2 million years, and one that died “only” 900,000 years ago, showed there had been two distinct mammoth lineages in northern Siberia over a million years ago, Tom van der Valk and Love Dal...
Source: haaretz.com