World’s oldest DNA is extracted from the tooth of a mammoth
The world’s oldest DNA is 1.2 million years old and comes from a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth, called the Krestovka mammoth, a new study reveals. Researchers analysed genomes from three ancient mammoths, using DNA recovered from mammoth teeth buried in Siberian permafrost. One genome dated back 1.2 million years and has been named the … Read more