Monday, 10 August 2015

Entire Genomes of Wooly Mammoth Mapped

A international team of researcher has sequenced the nearly complete genome of two Siberian wooly mammoths. It revealed most complete picture of wooly mammoth to date.It includes the new information about the species' evolutionary history and the conditions that led to its mass extinction at the end of the Ice Age.

Trunk of a baby mammoth

Source: Science Daily

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