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World's oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-02-17

An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old. The analyses show that the Columbian mammoth that inhabited North America during the last ice age was a hybrid between the woolly mammoth and a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-02-world-oldest-dna-reveals-mammoths.html