Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found
Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found A woolly mammoth tusk discovered in a creek bed on Wrangel Island in 2017. Photo: Love Dalén Alerts An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. Advertisement Mammuthus primigenius) may rival T. rex in popular imagination, but it is, in fact, one of the last mammoth species to hav...
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