An team that is international by scientists in the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm has sequenced DNA restored from mammoth keeps that are as much as 1.2 million yrs old. The analyses reveal that the Columbian mammoth that inhabited North America throughout the ice that is last had been a hybrid involving the woolly mammoth and a formerly unknown hereditary lineage of mammoth. In addition, the analysis my review here provides brand new insights into whenever and exactly how fast mammoths became adjusted to climate that is cold. [Read more...]