First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth

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Scientists analyse ‘world’s oldest DNA’ recovered 

from mammoth remains up to 1.2 million years old

By April Roach, Evening Standard, February 17, 2021

 

First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth

By Michael Marshall, New Scientist, February 2021

 

The paper is:

 

van der Valk, T., Pečnerová, P., Díez-del-Molino, D. et al.

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history

of mammoths. Nature (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03224-9

 

Yours,

Paul H.