Frozen mammoth skin retained its chromosome structure
Features as small as 50 nanometers preserved in a 50,000-year-old sample.
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Read more: Last population of mammoths survived a severe population bottleneckThe mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.
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New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living Mammoth
Read more: New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living MammothThe last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That’s the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammot…
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Three Mammoth Skeletons Discovered in Wine Cellar
Read more: Three Mammoth Skeletons Discovered in Wine CellarA winemaker’s renovation project in Gobelsburg, Austria, has led to the discovery of mammoth bones dating back up to 40,000 years, providing potential new insights into Upper Paleolithic hunting practices.Read more…
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What It Will Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines
Read more: What It Will Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and ThylacinesColossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo bird, developing a bioengineering toolkit along …
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Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step
Read more: Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key stepMaking elephant stem cells required an elaborate process, lots of failures.
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Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough
Read more: Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell BreakthroughColossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research describing the accomplishment will be ho…
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An Alaskan mammoth and ancient humans frequented the same areas
Read more: An Alaskan mammoth and ancient humans frequented the same areasIsotopes trapped in a tusk can be matched to those in the Alaskan landscape.
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14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age Campsite
Read more: 14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age CampsiteA female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists that recently scrutinized isotopes in the tusk.Read more…
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Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists
Read more: Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologistsThe technique could allow us to link mammoth health and nutrition to mating.
