World's oldest DNA sequenced from million-year-old mammoths
Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a million years have yielded the world's oldest DNA ever sequenced.
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Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a million years have yielded the world's oldest DNA ever sequenced.
The breakthrough research reveals an entirely new lineage of mammoth, previously unknown to science.
Beth Zaiken/Centre for Palaeogenetics For the first time, preserved DNA has been recovered from animal remains over a million years old. The DNA belonged to two mammoths that lived around 1.2 million years ago. The genetic sequences change our understanding of mammoth evolution. They reveal that, at that time, Siberia was home to two distinct groups of these animals. The mammoths of North America were the product of a hybridisation event between these two groups, and obtained half of their DNA from each. Advertisement “Instead of there being one species [or lineage] of mammoth up in Siberi...
Scientists sequenced DNA from three ancient mammoth teeth found in Siberia. Some of the DNA was more than 1 million years old, making it the oldest DNA ever
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